Founder at Next Agenda
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Founder at Next Agenda
- Past
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- Director at New Politics Institute
- Knowledge Developer at Global Business Network
- Managing Editor at Wired Magazine
- Education
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- Columbia University
- Columbia University
- Georgetown University
- Connections
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Peter Leyden’s Summary
Peter Leyden is Founder and CEO of Next Agenda, a startup that’s a cross between a policy think tank and a new media business leveraging new technologies to help solve America’s biggest challenges. Next Agenda gets top people outside of Washington DC involved in policy-making by using both new techniques for facilitating physical gatherings and new technologies for collaboration online. The process is captured on video and produced as a show to expose Americans to transformative solutions to the 21st Century challenges facing our country and the world.
Leyden recently finished a period as the Director of the New Politics Institute, a think tank helping people in politics understand and adapt to the huge changes in technology and new media. NPI built a network of private sector experts in tech and new media who helped Democrats re-strategize and take advantage of the new tools.
Leyden previously worked as the managing editor at the original Wired magazine, which helped drive the digital revolution and create the early online new media of the web. After that he worked as a director of Global Business Network’s think tank on the future that pioneered the use of diverse networks of talented individuals to help corporations and governments solve difficult problems. GBN used innovative facilitation and tools to productively leverage the talents of technologists, scientists, academics, entrepreneurs and artists.
Leyden has been a journalist, a special correspondent for Newsweek in Asia, and is coauthor of The Long Boom, which was translated into half a dozen languages, and What's Next, which was based on deep interviews with 50 remarkable people from diverse fields impacting the future.
Leyden is a frequent commentator in the media and speaks regularly about politics, new technologies and future trends. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and 16-year-old daughter.
Peter Leyden’s Specialties:
US Politics, California Politics, Internet and Hi-Tech, Media and Entertainment, and all things Technology
Peter Leyden’s Experience
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Founder
Next Agenda
(Think Tanks industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year )
Next Agenda is a new hybrid organization that’s a cross between a policy think tank leveraging new technologies and a new media business producing serious shows. It’s an innovative process that involves extraordinary people outside of Washington DC in solving national challenges by using both new techniques for facilitating physical gatherings and new technologies for collaboration online. The process is designed as a show and captured on video to expose Americans to transformative solutions to the 21st Century challenges facing our country and the world. The organization is built as a sustainable business with the potential to grow in global markets over time.
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Director
New Politics Institute
(Think Tanks industry)
September 2005 — July 2008 (2 years 11 months)
Peter Leyden was responsible for developing a diverse network of strategists from many different fields to help people in politics take advantage of today’s massive changes in technology, media and demographics.
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Knowledge Developer
Global Business Network
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)
May 2001 — July 2005 (4 years 3 months)
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Managing Editor
Wired Magazine
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
September 1995 — May 1998 (2 years 9 months)
Peter Leyden’s Education
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Columbia University
MS , Journalism , 1984 — 1985
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Columbia University
MA , Comparative Politics , 1983 — 1985
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Georgetown University
BA , Intellectual History , 1982
- Activities and Societies:
- Summa Cum Laude
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Leyden is a frequent keynote speaker on technology and future trends, speaking to business and general audiences in the United States and Europe. In recent years he has focused more on political audiences, and twice addressed the Democratic Caucus of the US House of Representatives, as well as the Democratic Caucus of the US Senate. Leyden was a special correspondent in Asia for Newsweek magazine in the late 1980s, where among other things, he did stories in China and Tibet just after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Leyden worked as a staff journalist at several newspapers, and has written for many publications, including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He now is a frequent commentator in the media.
Peter Leyden’s Groups:
Here's a few other interesting things I have done: Leyden did a year of undergraduate study abroad at the University of London and has traveled in more than 50 countries throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, North America and Asia, including China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia.
Leyden was born and raised in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, where his original family still live. For the last 13 years he has lived in Berkeley, California, with his wife Sharon and 16-year-old daughter, Emma.
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