DR. PETER H. DIAMANDIS

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis currently serves as chairman and president of the X Prize Foundation, a non-profit educational organization promoting the formation of space-related prizes. He also is the President/COO of Angel Technologies Corporation.

A founder and trustee of the International Space University (ISU), Dr. Diamandis also has served as the University's first managing director. Additionally, he established Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) where he was the first chairman from 1980 to 1983.

In 1989, Dr. Diamandis formed International MicroSpace, Inc. (IMI), a commercial launch company where he served as the CEO. IMI was later acquired by CTA Incorporated. While at CTA, he served as vice president for commercial space. Diamandis is also a co-founder of Constellation Communications, Inc., one of the "big-LEO" satellite communication companies.

Dr. Diamandis received his undergraduate and graduate degree in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. He has conducted research in a number of fields, including molecular genetics, space medicine and launch vehicle design.

Dr. Diamandis has received a number of awards including MIT's Kresge Award, the 1986 Space Industrialization Fellowship Award, the 1988 Aviation Week and Space Technology Laurel, the 1993 Space Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, and the Russian 1995 K.E. Tsiolkovsky Award.


X PRIZESM and NEW SPIRIT OF ST. LOUISSM are service marks of The X PRIZE Foundation, Inc.