With his popular 2016 US Presidential run as a science candidate, bestselling book "The Transhumanist Wager", and speeches at institutions like the World Bank, World Economic Forum, and the UK Parliament, Zoltan Istvan has spearheaded the effort to transform transhumanism into a thriving worldwide phenomenon. He is often cited as a global leader of the radical science movement. He specializes in AI, longevity, robotics, space travel, and Universal Basic Income.

Born in California, Zoltan has consulted for the US Navy and the Government of Dubai as a futurist, appeared on the Joe Rogan Podcast (and many other shows), and gave many speeches, including at Microsoft, the Global Leaders Forum (Korea), Congreso Futuro at the Chilean Senate, the Financial Times Camp Alphaville, and BMW World.

In 2019, an award-winning feature documentary four years in the making called "Immortality or Bust", which covers his historic bus tour across America on the Immortality Bus, came out on Amazon Prime. Zoltan has traveled to over 100 countries, and has a degree in Philosophy and Religion from Columbia University. He has a Masters in Ethics at the University of Oxford. Zoltan frequently writes articles for The New York Times, Newsweek, Vice, Wired, TechCrunch, and other major media. In 2023, he published the "Zoltan Istvan Furturist Collection", a seven-volume box set of his most popular Opinion essays. A biography written by Dr. Ben Murnane titled "Transhuman Citizen: Zoltan Istvan’s Hunt for Immortality" by Changemaker Books came out in June 2024. Zoltan is also the original author of the "Transhumanist Bill of Righs", published in full in Wired. For National Geographic, he pioneered the sport of Volcano Boarding while on assignment for them.

Zoltan is married to a medical doctor. They live in San Francisco with their two daugters. They own Zoltan Istvan Vineyards, which has wine properties on three continents. You can find out more about Zoltan here: www.zoltanistvan.com