User Profile for Peter Leyden (Peter Leyden)

Bio: Peter Leyden is the Director of the New Politics Institute, a think tank and strategy center based in San Francisco that focuses on the transformation of politics in the early 21st century. NPI is developing a diverse network of strategists from many different fields to help progressives take advantage of today’s massive changes in technology, media and demographics. NPI is an affiliate of New Democratic Network, with offices in Washington, DC.

Peter comes from the Global Business Network, a futures think tank and strategic consulting firm that pioneered the use of diverse networks of high capacity individuals. He worked for years at the center of GBN’s network of more than 100 technologists, scientists, academics, entrepreneurs, business strategists, and artists.

Leyden previously worked as the managing editor at the original Wired magazine that helped drive the digital revolution and pioneered the early online new media. He has worked as a journalist at several newspapers and as a special correspondent in Asia for Newsweek magazine. Leyden is the coauthor of two books, The Long Boom, A Future History of the World: 1980-2020; and What's Next?, Exploring the New Terrain for Business. He has written for many publications, including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Peter has two master's degrees from Columbia University, including one in political science, and graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife Sharon, and 14-year-old daughter, Emma. You can contact him at leyden@newpolitics.net and find more about him and NPI at www.newpolitics.net.

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