Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez – Singularity University and The Future

Dr. Rodrigo Nieto is a geostrategist and defense futurist focused on the consequences of the accelerating pace of change in homeland security and policing environments. He is a research professor at the National Security Affairs Department and at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School and has also worked as a certified facilitator and instructor for the Command College for the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and former instructor at the Executive Academy of the Emergency Management Institute. He is also a Singularity Expert, member of Singularity University.Dr. Nieto has a Ph.D. in Geopolitics from the French Institute of Geopolitics of the University of Paris. He holds a J.D. from the State University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico.For more than a decade, Dr. Nieto has taught hundreds of high ranking law enforcement, military, and homeland security leaders how to create and execute strategies to transform their agencies to meet the requirements of rapidly changing environments and threat profiles. As an innovation expert and an academically trained geostrategist, he has built a reputation as an expert on future threats to national security and policing and how to confront them. In the course of his research, he studied the geographic conditions that affect the security ecosystem of the U.S. perimeter, conducting terrain research on every mile of this important and conflictive territory. Dr. Nieto has multiple publications describing the adaptation capacities of global organized crime, the public policy challenges of innovation and intrapreneurship in government and homeland security, asymmetric warfare, and cybersecurity.Dr. Nieto has been recognized as one of the top 5% performing Singularity Expert, members at NPS and had the honor of winning on two occasions the NPS LCDR David L. Williams Outstanding Professor Award.His native language is Spanish and has bilingual proficiency in English, full professional proficiency in French and intermediate knowledge of German.As an aviation enthusiast, he holds a private pilot certificate.

Rodrigo is going to take us to new places in terms of the future, security and national defense. His incredible body of work is featured at his website rodrigonietogomez.blogspot.com