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Co-Founder & Chairman, Singularity University

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation (www.xprize.org), which awarded the $10,000,000 Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight. The Foundation is focused on developing large incentive prizes to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity in fields such as Genomics, Automotive, Education, Medicine, Energy, and Social arenas. Diamandis is also the co-Founder and Managing Director of Space Adventures (www.spaceadventures.com), the only private company to send private citizens to the Int’l Space Station (the 7th customer flies in March 2009) aboard the Soyuz. Space Adventures also operates a commercial weightless flight operation (www.gozerog.com), having flown over 7,000 members of the public, most famously Professor Stephen Hawking in 2007. Diamandis is a co-Founder of the Rocket Racing League (www.rocketracingleague.com) and Co-Founder/Trustee of the International Space University (www.isunet.edu). He attended MIT, 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 has was also awarded an honorary Doctorate from the International Space University.