Register Now: Anderson Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series Presents Martine Rothblatt
The UCLA Anderson School of Management is proud to present Martine Rothblatt as an upcoming speaker in the Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D., is founder, chairman and CEO of United Therapeutics Corporation.
Rothblatt was previously the founder, chairman and CEO of Sirius XM Satellite Radio and co-founder of the global satellite system PanAmSat. She earned a Ph.D. in Medical Ethics from the Royal London College of Medicine & Dentistry and JD and MBA degrees from UCLA. Her human rights work includes articulating equal marital rights in “The Apartheid of Sex,” reproductive rights in “Unzipped Genes” and patient rights in “Your Life or Mine.”
Rothblatt is responsible for launching several communications satellite companies, including Geostar– the first nationwide vehicle location system in 1983, WorldSpace– the first global satellite radio network in 1990, Sirius Satellite Radio– the first non-geostationary satellite-to-car broadcasting system in 1990.
In the late 1990s, motivated by her own daughter’s medical condition, Rothblatt entered the realm of the life sciences by creating the PPH Cure Foundation and then founding United Therapeutics in 1996. She also led the International Bar Association’s biopolitical project to develop a draft Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights for the United Nations.
Martine Rothblatt will be speaking on Monday, January 27, from 11:30am to 12:30pm in Room A-201 of the Collins Center . You can register for the event here.
