Peter Leyden

Peter Leyden is the Knowledge Developer at Global Business Network, helping identify what GBN and its extended network know and should be learning about. He makes connections between ideas and helps share them throughout the network and to the world at large.

Peter is coauthor of What's Next, Exploring the New Terrain for Business (Perseus/Wiley 2002), and The Long Boom, A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity (Perseus 1999), now translated into seven languages. He is a contributor and on the advisory board of Business, The Ultimate Resource (Perseus/Bloomsbury 2002).

Peter was the former managing editor, and a longtime senior editor, at Wired magazine, covering digital technologies and the new economy in the 1990s. He watched the rise of Asia as a special correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the late1980s. During his 15 years as a journalist, he wrote for many publications, including The New York Times, London Guardian, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Peter received two masters degrees from Columbia University, one in comparative politics and political economy, and one in journalism. He did undergraduate study in intellectual history at Georgetown University. He also spent a year at the University of London studying literature and art history.
Peter has spoken frequently in the United States and Europe about new technologies, economic change, and the future. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife Sharon, and 10-year-old daughter Emma. He can be reached at leyden@gbn.com.