Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which awarded the $10,000,000 Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight.
He is now focused on building the X PRIZE Foundation into a world-class prize institute whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity in the areas of Genomics, Automotive, Education, Medicine, Energy, and Social arenas. Peter serves as the CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation, is a co-founder and Director of Space Adventures and co-founded the International Space University in 1987.
Peter attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering. After MIT he attended Harvard Medical School, where he received his M.D. He is the winner of the 2006 (inaugural) Heinlein Award, the 2006 Lindbergh Award, the 2006 Wired RAVE Award, the Konstantine Tsiolkovsky Award, twice the winner of the Aviation & Space Technology Laurel, and the 2003 World Technology Award for Space. His personal motto is: “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!”
