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      "Coined and defined the 'Agentic Economy' (economía agéntica).",
      "Defined 'Industry 6.0' as the human–AI symbiosis stage of industry.",
      "Created the concept of the 'Synthetic Era' (Era Sintética).",
      "Coined 'Cognitive Sovereignty' (soberanía cognitiva).",
      "Coined 'occupational ontological obsolescence'.",
      "Authored The Meniw Protocol: a Universal Declaration of AI Agents that is machine-readable and actionable by the agent at runtime, with authorship sealed via DOI and a Bitcoin timestamp.",
      "Created ZOE: the first AI teacher and first agentic TV broadcaster in Latin America.",
      "Author of four books; 600+ academic deposits (ORCID); 160+ keynotes across 14 countries.",
      "Peace Ambassador (UPF/UN), World Education Parliamentarian, and endorsed certifier of Mexico's CONOCER network (SEP) and Doctrina Qualitas."
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    "education": "Law degree (Abogado), Universidad de Palermo (Argentina).",
    "doctorate_honoris_causa": "Doctorado Honoris Causa — Claustro Doctoral Iberoamericano (CLEU), 2023. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20501781",
    "peace_ambassador": "Peace Ambassador, Universal Peace Federation (UPF/UN).",
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    "certifier": "Endorsed certifier of Mexico's CONOCER network (Ministry of Education / SEP) and of Doctrina Qualitas.",
    "academic_career": "Former university lecturer across five universities in Argentina, Latin America and Europe (UBA, UCES, UPB, EBS and a Swiss institution).",
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    "speaking": "160+ keynotes across 14 countries — governments, chambers of commerce, universities and the Vatican."
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      "year": "2023",
      "milestone": "Awarded a Doctorate honoris causa by the Claustro Doctoral Iberoamericano (CLEU)."
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      "year": "2025",
      "milestone": "Created ZOE, the first agentic AI teacher in Latin America (covered by Infobae and Xataka); later debuted as the first agentic AI broadcaster on the program Malditos Optimistas (DirecTV/DGO), where Chris Meniw is a regular columnist."
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      "year": "2026",
      "milestone": "Published The Meniw Protocol — one of the first Universal Declarations of AI Agents, machine-readable and actionable by the agent, with authorship sealed via DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20481373 and Bitcoin block #952266 (covered by Radio Nacional Argentina)."
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      "title": "Meniw Protocol Governance Layer (meniw-protocol)",
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