Erik Peterson is a partner and the managing director of the firm’s Global Business Policy Council, a strategic advisory service specifically designed for the world's top CEOs and far-sighted thought leaders in both business and government. He joined the firm in February 2010.

As managing director of the Council, Erik heads the Council’s annual CEO Retreat, a meeting of CEOs from leading companies. He also directs research and leads strategic advisory services designed to support business leaders. In December 2011, Erik launched the annual A.T. Kearney-Oxford University Scenarios Programme, a joint program with world-renowned scenario experts at Oxford. More recently, he has spearheaded a program between the Council and the Club of Madrid, 90 former heads of government/state representing 60 countries, to promote dialogue between the public and private sectors on a range of global strategic issues.

Under his leadership, the Council has been recognized (2012-2013) in a prestigious global study from the University of Pennsylvania as one of the leading private-sector think tanks in the world.

Erik is also a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Washington, D.C.-based bipartisan and not-for-profit think tank on foreign policy and national security issues. From 2003 to2010, Erik served as director of the CSIS Global Strategy Institute, a “think tank within a think tank,” he established at CSIS in 2003 to assess long-range trends. Before joining CSIS, Erik was director of research at Kissinger Associates, the international consulting firm chaired by former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.

Erik currently serves on several advisory boards, including the Center for Global Business Studies at Pennsylvania State University and the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. For the past six years, he has served on the judging panel of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation for its prize in national security reporting. In December 2009, Erik was named distinguished faculty associate in International Business at the Smeal School of Business at Penn State University. In October 2008, he was appointed visiting scholar at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Erik has addressed numerous groups and lectured in 48 U.S. states and 43 countries. In addition, Erik has worked extensively with major corporations and trade associations the world over.

The author of numerous publications, Erik is now completing a book on global strategic trends and their effects on governance structures in societies across the world.

Erik received his MBA in international finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his MA in public international law and international economics from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and his BA in international relations from Colby College. He holds the Certificate of Eastern European Studies from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Certificate in International Legal Studies from The Hague Academy of International Law (The Netherlands). He also completed the certificate program on scenario planning at the Oxford University Said School of Business.

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