Named by Fortune as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Peter H. Diamandis, MD is a Greek-American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on innovation, longevity, and exponential technologies. Born in New York City to Greek immigrants, Peter studied biology and physics at MIT (BS, MS in aeronautics and astronautics) and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School through the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.
Peter is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which he launched in 1994 after reading Charles Lindbergh’s The Spirit of St. Louis. XPRIZE has since launched over $600 million in incentive competitions – including the original $10M Ansari XPRIZE that birthed the private spaceflight industry, the $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE, the $10M Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, and the $101M XPRIZE Healthspan – driving more than $10 billion in research and development across space, health, robotics, climate, quantum and AI.
In 2008, Peter co-founded Singularity University with futurist Ray Kurzweil. He is also co-founder of BOLD Capital Partners (a $600M longevity and exponential-tech fund), Exponential Ventures (a $500M AI venture fund), Fountain Life (a longevity diagnostics and therapeutics provider), Human Longevity Inc., Celularity, Planetary Resources, the Zero Gravity Corporation, Space Adventures, and the International Space University. In total, Peter has founded or co-founded more than 25 companies spanning health, space, education, AI, and venture capital.
A New York Times bestselling author, Peter co-wrote the ‘Exponential Mindset Trilogy’ with Steven Kotler – Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World, and The Future Is Faster Than You Think – along with Life Force (with Tony Robbins and Robert Hariri), Exponential Organizations 2.0, and the Longevity Guidebook (2025). He hosts the top-ranked MOONSHOTS podcast where he interviews leaders like Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Cathie Wood, Eric Schmidt, Mustafa Suleyman, and Vinod Khosla, and his Metatrends newsletter is read by 140,000+ founders, CEOs and investors.
Peter has received the Lindbergh Award, the Heinlein Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Innovation, the Konstantine Tsiolkovsky Award, and the Neil Armstrong Award for Aerospace Achievement and Leadership. He has delivered keynotes for State Farm, Charles Schwab, GE, Coca-Cola, Cisco, SAP, Microsoft, Dell, Johnson & Johnson, Caterpillar, the UAE Government, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Symantec, Deloitte, Teradata, Kaufman Hall, YPO, and TED – where his ‘Abundance Is Our Future’ talk has surpassed one million views. Past audiences range from 80 CEO summits to 4,000+ investment advisors and 3,000+ government officials in Dubai.
In every keynote, Peter combines visionary insight with concrete frameworks that help leaders harness AI, longevity, robotics and exponential technologies to scale exponentially – and to turn the world’s biggest problems into the world’s greatest business opportunities.


























