Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress

Mr. Erik R. Peterson is head of the Global Business Policy Council at A.T. Kearney. He is also Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Formerly, he was Senior Vice President at CSIS and directed the Global Strategy Institute there. He also headed the Seven Revolutions Initiative, an internationally recognized effort to identify and forecast global trends out to the year 2025 and beyond. Peterson also held the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at CSIS. Before joining CSIS, he was Director of research at Kissinger Associates. Peterson serves on several advisory Boards, including those of the X Prize Foundation and the Center for Global Business Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is a Visiting Scholar at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Faculty Associate in International Business at the Smeal School of Business at Penn State University.