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Erik Peterson is a specialist on demography and population, and speaks on geopolitical and country risk assessment; international trade and finance; international business strategy and global strategic planning.

Peterson is the 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 forecast global trends out to the year 2025 and beyond. 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, he was director of research at Kissinger Associates.

Peterson serves on several advisory boards, including those of the X Prize Foundation, the Center for Global Business Studies at Pennsylvania State University, and the Center for the Study of the Presidency. He was a fellow of the World Economic Forum and has served on its Global Risk Network. The author of several publications, he is completing a 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). He has spoken before numerous groups and lectured in 14 countries. Peterson 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.

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