Edward Hudgins, PhD

Founder, president, Human Achievement Alliance.

Edward Hudgins, Ph.D, is founder of the Human Achievement Alliance. With an expertise in science and exponential technology policy, he seeks through his organization to unleash innovators to use infotech, nanotech, biotech, robotics, and AI to create a future of unimagined prosperity, with long, healthy, living-to-200 lives for all.

In recent years, he’s worked on a desperately-needed transformational reforms of the Food and Drug Administration, health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and in related policies arenas. Such reforms are crucial to ensuring ever-increasing healthspans and longevity. He helped establish the Afro-Longevity Foundation and is involved in International Longevity Alliance. He is involved in policymaking in Washington, D.C. and forming a working group of healthcare experts to raise consciousness about the promise of exponential technology for healthspan and longevity and promote appropriate policy and regulatory reforms.

Hudgins’ public policy career stretches for nearly four decades. In addition to work in biotech, he was in the forefront of opening space to private enterprises, for example, in his book Space: The Free-market Frontier, which includes a chapter by Apollo 11 lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin. Hudgins has worked at the Heritage Foundation, where he laid the foundations for the Index of Economic Freedom; the Joint Economic Committee of Congress; the Cato Institute; the Atlas Society; and the Heartland Institute. He has taught at universities in the U.S. and Germany.

You can contact him at ehudgins@humanachievementalliance.org .