Erik Peterson is senior vice president at CSIS, where he is director of the Global Strategy Institute. As director, he heads the “Seven Revolutions Initiative,” an internationally recognized effort to identify and project global trends to the year 2025. Peterson also holds the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at CSIS. For his contributions to the Center, he received the 2006–2007 CSIS Trustees Award.

Before joining CSIS, Peterson was director of research at Kissinger Associates. Peterson serves on several boards, including that of the Center for Global Business Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He was a fellow of the World Economic Forum and served at its Global Risk Network. He currently advises the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy and the Center for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Globalization.

The author of several publications, he is completing another book on global strategic trends and their effects on governance structures in societies across the world. He recently contributed a chapter entitled “Scanning the More Distant Future” to For the Common Good: The Ethics of Leadership in the 21st Century (Praeger, 2006).

Peterson has spoken before numerous groups and lectured in 14 countries. He received his M.B.A. from the Wharton school, his M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and his B.A. from Colby College. He holds the Certificate of Eastern European Studies from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the Certificate in International Legal Studies from The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands.