Rodrigo Nieto, Defense Futurist in conversation with Futurist Ian Khan

In this episode i speak with Rodrigo Nieto, also a co-contributor to the recent book “After Shock”.

Bio

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 faculty 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 faculty 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.

About After Shock

The world’s foremost futurists reflect on 50 years of Future Shock—and look ahead to the next 50

Contributors include:

Alan Kay

Aaron Frank

Adrienne Mayor

Alexander Mankowsky

Alexandra Ivanovitch

Alisha Bhagat

Amy Zalman

Anders Sorman-Nilsson

Andra Keay

Andrew Curry

Andy Hines

Anita Sengupta

Anne Lise Kjaer

Aris Persidis

Aubrey de Grey

Barry O’Reilly

Barry Vacker

Bill Davidow

Bill Diamond

Bryan Alexander

Byron Reese

Carlos Osorio

Carver Mead

Cat Tully

Cindy Frewen

Clem Bezold

Daniel Burrus

Daniel Levine

David Brin

David Guston

David Krakauer

David J. Staley

David Weinberger

Deb Westphal

Diane M. Francis

Donna Dupont

Eleanor “Nell” Watson

Eric Daimler

Erica Bol

Erik Qualman

Fotis Sotiropoulos

George Gilder

Grady Booch

Gray Scott

Hannes Sjoblad

Harish Natarajan

Hazel Henderson

Helen Messier

Ian Khan

Ignacio Pena

Jack Uldrich

James Canton

Jane McGonigal

Jason Jackson

Jason Schenker

Jay Gambetta

Jeff Eisenach

Jeffrey C. Bauer

Jerome Glenn

Jerry Fishenden

Joe Dispenza

Joe Tankersley

Joel Garreau

John L. Petersen

John M. Smart

John Sack

John Sanei

John Schroeter

Jonathan Venn

José Morey