Advisors are not active officers of the Transhumanist Party, but are valued for their knowledge, achievements, and constructive input to the effective operation of the Transhumanist Party and the ongoing growth of the transhumanist movement.

Bill Andrews, Ph. D. – Biotechnology Advisor
Keith Comito – Crowdfunding Advisor
José Luis Cordeiro, MBA, Ph. D. – Technology Advisor
Zak Field – Virtual Reality Advisor
Aubrey de Grey, Ph. D. – Anti-Aging Advisor
Zoltan Istvan – Political and Media Advisor
Newton Lee – Education and Media Advisor
Inessa Lee – Public Relations Advisor
Rich Lee – Biohacking Advisor
Miss Metaverse (Katie King) – Media Advisor
Elizabeth Parrish – Advocacy Advisor
Ira Pastor – Regeneration Advisor
Micah Redding – Advisor on Religion
Giovanni Santostasi, Ph. D. – Neuroscience Advisor
Paul A. Spiegel, J.D. – Legal Advisor
Jan-Olav “Joe” Spiekermann – Advisor on Seasteads and Micronations

Bill Andrews, Ph. D. – Biotechnology Advisor

Dr. Bill Andrews (William H. Andrews) is the President and CEO of Sierra Sciences. As a scientist, athlete, and executive, he continually pushes the envelope and challenges convention. He has been featured in Popular Science, The Today Show and numerous documentaries on the topic of life extension including, most recently, the movie The Immortalists in which he co-stars with Aubrey de Grey.

In his 39-year biotech career, he has focused the last 27 years on finding ways to extend the human lifespan and healthspan through telomere maintenance. As one of the principal discoverers of both the RNA and protein components of human telomerase, Dr. Andrews was awarded 2nd place as “National Inventor of the Year” in 1997. He earned his Ph.D. in Molecular and Population Genetics at the University of Georgia in 1981. He has served as Senior Scientist at Armos Corporation and Codon Corporation, Director of Molecular Biology at Berlex Biosciences and at Geron Corporation, and Director of Technology Development at EOS Biosciences. He is also a named inventor on over 50 US-issued patents on telomerase, and author of numerous scientific research studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Bill is also an avid ultramarathon runner. At the age of 67, he regularly competes in 100k and 100+ mile runs, often finishing at the top of his age group. These grueling races have taken him all over the world to race in some of the most extreme environments, from Death Valley to the Himalayas. His running is presently featured in the movie The High.

Keith Comito – Crowdfunding Advisor

José Luis Cordeiro, MBA, Ph. D. – Technology Advisor

José Luis Cordeiro is a world citizen in our small planet in a big unknown universe. He was born in Latin America, from European parents, was educated in Europe and North America, and has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. He has studied, visited and worked in over 130 countries in 5 continents.

Mr. Cordeiro studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA, where he received his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) degrees in Mechanical Engineering, with a minor in Economics and Languages. His thesis consisted of a dynamic modeling for NASA’s “Freedom” Space Station (the “International” Space Station of today). He later studied International Economics and Comparative Politics at Georgetown University in Washington, USA, and then obtained his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France, where he majored in Finance and Globalization. During his studies, Mr. Cordeiro worked with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna, Austria, and with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, USA. He started his doctoral degree at MIT, which he continued later in Tokyo, Japan, and finally received his PhD at Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a lifetime member of the Sigma Xi (ΣΞ, Scientific Research) and Tau Beta Pi (ТΒΠ, Engineering) Honor Societies in North America, is also a honorary member of the Venezuelan Engineers College (CIV), and his name has been included in the Marquis Edition of Who’s Who in the World.

Following his graduation, Mr. Cordeiro worked as an engineer in petroleum exploration for the French company Schlumberger. For several years, he served as an advisor for many of the major oil companies in the world, including Agip, BP, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, PDVSA, Pemex, Petrobras, Repsol, Shell and Total. Later, in Paris, he initiated his relation with the international consulting company Booz-Allen & Hamilton, where he specialized in the areas of strategy, finance and restructuring. In Latin America, he has served as an advisor for some of the most important regional corporations and has taken part in the transformation and privatization of a number of oil companies in the continent. His experience and studies in monetary policy, currency boards, dollarization and monetary unions have taken him to participate in several monetary changes in Latin America and Eastern Europe.

At present, he is chair of the Venezuelan Node of the Millennium Project, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE – JETRO) in Tokyo, Japan, and Founding Faculty and Energy Advisor at Singularity University (SU) in NASA Ames Research Park, Silicon Valley, California, USA. He is also an independent consultant, writer, researcher, professor and “tireless traveler”. He has lectured as an Invited Professor at several major institutions, from MIT in the USA and Sophia University (上智大学) in Japan to the Institute for Higher Studies in Administration (IESA) and the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), where he created the first formal courses of Futures Studies (“Prospectiva”) and the Austrian School of Economics in Venezuela.

Mr. Cordeiro is founder and president emeritus of the World Future Society Venezuela Chapter (Sociedad Mundial del Futuro Venezuela); director of the Single Global Currency Association (SGCA) and the Lifeboat Foundation; cofounder of the Venezuelan Transhumanist Association and of the Internet Society (ISOC, Venezuela Chapter); board advisor to the Brain Preservation Foundation (BPF) and Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN); member of the Academic Committee of the Center for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge (CEDICE), the Foresight Education and Research Network (FERN), the World Future Society (WFS) and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF); expert member of the TechCast Project and ShapingTomorrow; former director of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA, now Humanity+), the Extropy Institute (ExI), the Club of Rome (Venezuela Chapter, where he was active promoting classical liberal ideas and the idea of “World Opportunitique” beyond “World Problematique” and “World Resolutique”) and of the Association of Venezuelan Exporters (AVEX), where he participated in the original negotiations of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). He has also been advisor to the Venezuelan Business Association (AVE) and other companies and international organizations.

Thanks to his extensive work in technological foresight, futures studies, globalization, economic integration, long-term development, energy, education and monetary policy, Mr. Cordeiro has authored and coauthored several books. El Desafío Latinoamericano, his first book, is a continental bestseller originally published by McGraw-Hill and is used in more than 100 universities in the hemisphere (see introductory pages). The second Spanish edition is now available completely free in electronic form by the author, who is also donating his book royalties. Arturo Uslar Pietri, the most universal and respected Venezuelan of the 20th century, described the other two books of Mr. Cordeiro with the following words: “as important to Venezuela as the independence battle of Carabobo” (The Great Taboo) and “an impressive work that describes the grave economic malady… of Venezuela” (La Segunda Muerte de Bolívar). He has authored other books about Ecuador (La Segunda Muerte de Sucre) and Mexico (¿Pesos o Dólares?), and about special topics like education (Benesuela vs. Venezuela), energy (Energía para el Desarrollo de América del Sur and Cenários Energéticos 2020, in Portuguese) and transhumanism (2020: Transhuman & Economy of the Future, in Korean). His most recent books are Latinoamérica 2030 with the Millennium Project and Crisis 危機: (Financial) Danger and (Monetary) Opportunity with Spanish economist Ramón Tamames. He has written more than 10 books and co-written over 20 more in five languages, including sections of the State of the Future with the Millennium Project.

Mr. Cordeiro has a fortnightly opinion column in the largest and most prestigious Venezuelan general newspaper (El Universal) and has also written and has been interviewed in major media (press, radio and TV) including ABC, BBC,CNN, Chosun Ilbo (Korean Daily), El Comercio (Ecuador), El Comercio (Peru), El Tiempo (Colombia), El Universal (Mexico), El Universal (Venezuela), Los Andes (Argentina),O Estado de Sao Paulo (Brazil), Mainichi Shimbun (Japan Daily News), La Tribune (France), The New York Times, Univision and The Washington Times (USA). He has also filmed documentaries with Discovery Channel and the History Channel.

Zak Field – Virtual Reality Advisor

Futurist Zak Field is an international speaker, consultant, games designer, and entrepreneur based in Norwich, UK. A rising thought leader in Mixed Realities (VR/AR), Zak speaks and consults on Mixed Realities-related topics like gamification, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Robotics, Artificial Intelligences (AIs), and the Internet of Things (IoT).

In 2015, Zak partnered with Futurist Miss Metaverse as co-founder of BodAi, a robotics and AI company developing Bods, lifelike humanoid robot companions made accessible through a unique system that accommodates practical 21st-Century business and lifestyle needs.

Aubrey de Grey – Anti-Aging Advisor

Dr. Aubrey de Grey is the biomedical gerontologist who researched the idea for and founded SENS Research Foundation. He received his BA in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and 2000, respectively. Dr. de Grey is Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organizations.

Zoltan Istvan – Political and Media Advisor 

Zoltan Istvan is a renowned journalist, entrepreneur, and transhumanist. He writes transhumanist-themed columns: “The Transhumanist Philosopher” – a blog for Psychology Today, and “Transhumanist Future” for Vice’s Motherboard. He has also worked as a reporter for the National Geographic Channel and is a blogger of futurist, transhumanist, and atheist topics for The Huffington Post.

He is the author of The Transhumanist Wager, a philosophical science fiction novel.

Zoltan founded the Transhumanist Party on October 7, 2014, and ran for President of the United States in the 2016 elections to raise awareness for transhumanist political issues. His presidential campaign has been broadly covered in major media for its science and technology platform and has earned more than 70,000,000 views online.

After the 2016 elections, Zoltan has relinquished control of the Transhumanist Party but remains a valued advisor to those who seek to create a lasting transhumanist movement by continuing the momentum that Zoltan’s campaign started.

Visit Zoltan’s website at ZoltanIstvan.com.

Newton Lee – Education and Media Advisor 

Newton Lee is president of the Institute for Education, Research & Scholarships (IFERS), adjunct professor at Woodbury University School of Media, Culture & Design (MCD), editor-in-chief of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computers in Entertainment, and book curator for Springer Nature.

Previously, Lee was a computer scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, senior producer and engineer at The Walt Disney Company, and research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He was the founder of Disney Online Technology Forum, creator of Bell Labs’ first-ever commercial AI tool, inventor of the world’s first annotated multimedia OPAC for the U.S. National Agricultural Library, and campaign advisor to Zoltan Istvan for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.

Lee graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science, and he earned a perfect GPA from Vincennes University with an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate in Computer Science. He has been honored with a Michigan Leading Edge Technologies Award, two community development awards from the California Junior Chamber of Commerce, and four volunteer project leadership awards from The Walt Disney Company.

Lee’s Total Information Awareness trilogy (Facebook Nation, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity, and Google It) has garnered rave reviews from Eleanor Clift of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, ACM Computing Reviews, AdWeek SocialTimes, and Choice Magazine, among others. Veteran Staff Sergeant Andrew Price of the United States Air Force (USAF) remarked, “I am inspired by the prospect of world peace. I’d fully recommend following the author’s steps, reaching beyond our borders, making friends outside our norm, and helping to foster world peace and a better tomorrow.”

Newton Lee is the chairman of the California Transhumanist Party.

Inessa Lee – Public Relations Advisor 

Inessa Lee is a futurist writer and the originator of Equalism, a socioeconomic theory which she presented in Chapter 66 of The Transhumanism Handbook (Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2019), where she offers Equalism as a potential transhumanist solution to social inequality and class struggle. Inessa believes that humans are born to be equal, and socioeconomic equality can be achieved by means of science and technology, supported by the development of “Transhuman Consciousness”. Her formula of Equalism combines science, technology, and philosophy.

Rich Lee – Biohacking Advisor

Black hat transhumanist Rich Lee made headlines in 2013 after he successfully implanted headphones in his ears. Rich is a prominent figure in the biohacking subculture known collectively as “the Grinders.” Not content to wait for a bionic future that may never come, members of this transhuman underground are notorious for self-experimentation, DIY surgical procedures, and homemade cybernetic implants. Rich Lee is involved in many human augmentation projects with a primary focus on sensory expansion and the elimination of human needs.

Miss Metaverse (Katie King) – Media Advisor 

Miss Metaverse (Katie King) is a futurist consultant and founder of the startup BodAI. She has presented at numerous conferences and collaborated on television series for SPIKE, MTV, TruTV, Lifetime, Discovery, Nat Geo, and other channels. She founded the Futurista™ agency and startups FutureFriday.org and Awesome Future TV, and has been a guest on several podcasts, including Robot Overlordz, Inspireland, and On Air With Sir.  You can read her interviews with IEET and Upfront Media Insights. Visit her website here.

Ira Pastor – Regeneration Advisor 

Ira Pastor has 30 years of experience across multiple sectors of the pharmaceutical industry, including pharmaceutical commercialization, biotech drug development, managed care, distribution, OTC, and retail. He served as VP, Business Development, for drug development company Phytomedics Inc., raising $40 million of private equity, consummating over $50 million of licensing deals, and bringing lead drug candidates from discovery stage to Phase III development. Prior to that, he was employed by SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, working in sales, marketing, and business strategy positions. Mr. Pastor has also served as Vice President of Corporate Development for the pharmacy benefit management company Prescription Delivery Systems (acquired by Cigna Health Insurance). Mr. Pastor has an MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Pharmacy from Rutgers University. He is also a Board Member of RegenerAge SAPI de CV, (www.regenerage.clinic/en/), a clinical company focused on expedited translational therapeutic applications of regenerative and rejuvenative healthcare interventions, the Reanima Project (http://www.reanima.tech), and member of the Executive Council of WAMS, The World Academy of Medical Sciences.

Elizabeth Parrish – Advocacy Advisor 

Elizabeth (Liz) Parrish, CEO of BioViva USA, Inc., is a humanitarian, entrepreneur, innovator, and a leading voice for genetic cures. As a strong proponent of progress and education for the advancement of regenerative medicine modalities, she serves as a motivational speaker to the public at large for the life sciences. She is actively involved in international educational media outreach and is a founding member of the International Longevity Alliance (ILA). She is an affiliated member of the Complex Biological Systems Alliance (CBSA), which is a unique platform for Mensa-based, highly gifted persons who advance scientific discourse and discovery.

The mission of the CBSA is to further scientific understanding of biological complexity and the nature and origins of human disease. She is the founder of BioTrove Investments LLC and the BioTrove Podcasts, which is committed to offering a meaningful way for people to learn about and fund research in regenerative medicine.

Micah Redding – Advisor on Religion

Micah Redding is a software developer, founder and Executive Director of the Christian Transhumanist Association, and host of the Christian Transhumanist Podcast. He grew up as a preacher’s kid, spent eight years as a rock musician, and has traveled extensively, to places such as Kathmandu, Afghanistan, and the coasts of Africa. In 2012, he found himself in Tahrir Square during the first election after the Egyptian revolution.

As a software developer, he has worked with startups to strategically lay the groundwork for open-ended growth, led development on multi-million dollar web products, and helped larger companies dramatically accelerate their development process.

Micah lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he coordinates vibrant inter-religious dialogue, cutting-edge art events, and public conversations on the technological singularity and the future of the human race. He is a member of Mensa, a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and Vice Motherboard, and a speaker for TEDx and numerous other events.

Giovanni Santostasi, Ph. D. – Neuroscience Advisor

Giovanni Santostasi, Ph.D. is a modern Renaissance man (he considers his native Italy’s Renaissance movement a historical precedent of Transhumanism). He has received a Ph.D. in Physics working on gravitational waves and neutron star astrophysics. He has spent almost 20 years analyzing complex data in several scientific fields.

He is currently working as a neuroscientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, investigating the neuroscience of sleep and in particular the role of sleep in memory consolidation and learning. Giovanni is the Chief Scientific Officer of DeepWave Technologies, a company he co-founded to commercialize his patent-pending IP to enhance memory and cognition during sleep.

Dr. Santostasi is the author of almost 100 research papers, and his works have been featured in prestigious scientific journals, as well as receiving attention from popular media like Men’s Health Magazine and ScienceDaily.com.

Giovanni is a passionate transhumanist. He a member of Alcor’s Life Extension Foundation and the creator of the Facebook group Scientific Transhumanism, which currently has more than 18,000 members.

Paul A. Spiegel, J.D. – Legal Advisor 

Paul A. Spiegel, J.D. is a thought leader, an international speaker, and a longtime activist in the fields of longevity and transhumanism.  He is a board member of the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation  the American Longevity Alliance, and Humanity Plus, and is a former board member of the International Longevity Alliance.  He is a legal advisor to the U.S. Transhumanist Party, the Lifeboat Foundation, and the Brain Preservation Foundation, he is a member of Health Extension and carboncopies.org, and he provides legal counsel for many longevity-related and transhumanist enterprises.

Paul is an attorney specializing in longevity biomedicine and has counseled and consulted for the longevity community since 2006.  His San Francisco firm, Eclectic Law, provides general counsel services to startups and established companies in biotechnology, longevity medicine, and other fields.  He is founder of Libertas Biomedical, LLC, which seeks friendly offshore venues for companies to promote longevity research and treatment with greater freedom than is allowed in the United States or the European Union.  As of October, 2019, he serves the Republic of San Marino as Honorary Consul for California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.

Paul graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979, from Berkeley Law School in 1983, attended Harvard Law School, the University of Paris, Sorbonne, International Christian University in Tokyo, and speaks 5 languages, including English, French, Spanish, and Italian. Trained in international business law, he worked on Wall Street, on Montgomery Street, and in Tokyo before entering private practice in San Francisco.  Long an advocate of progressive ideas and legal causes, he has focused on longevity, transhumanism, regenerative medicine, and the biology of aging.

Jan-Olav “Joe” Spiekermann – Advisor on Seasteads and Micronations

Jan-Olav “Joe” Spiekermann is a safety and security consultant and a world citizen of German, Danish, French, and Swedish ancestry.

He studied History at the University of Marburg, Security Management at the Police Department of the Administration College of Schleswig-Holstein, and IT-Security at the University of Lübeck. He has been involved in local politics for many years and is an active member of the micronational community. Joe is also a staunch supporter of the concept of a global Universal Basic Income. As the son of a math and physics teacher, he was taught the importance of science and technology from early childhood.

Joe Spiekermann is a Libertarian Transhumanist. He supports efforts at political, economic, and cultural experimentation in the form of seasteads and micronations, because he is convinced that small political entities are better suited to developing more sustainable forms of coexistence which, if they have proven to work, can then in turn be transferred constructively to larger political units again.

Mr. Spiekermann loves to play chess, to read about history, and to go to the gym.