Dr. Peter Diamandis, Founder & CEO of X PRIZE Foundation, is an international leader in the commercial space arena, having founded and run many of the leading entrepreneurial companies in this sector. Diamandis also serves as the CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation (www.gozerog.com). He is a co-founder and Director of Space Adventures, the company which brokered the launches of four private citizens to the International Space Station.

In 1987, Diamandis co-founded the International Space University (ISU) where he served as the University's first managing director. Today he serves as a Trustee of the $30M ISU that is based in Strasbourg, France. Prior to ISU, Diamandis served as Chairman of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space an organization he founded at MIT in 1980. SEDS is the world's largest student pro space organization.

Diamandis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his undergraduate degree in molecular genetics and graduate degree in aerospace engineering. After MIT he attended Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. In 2005 he was also awarded an honorary Doctorate from the International Space University.

Dr. Diamandis' mission is to open the space frontier for humanity. His signature motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!"

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