Peter James Thomas OBE is a British academic and entrepreneur.

Following a PhD at The University of Hull in the applications of social science to computing, he lectured in Human-Computer Interaction at Brunel University, West London between 1990–1992 and became Professor of Information Management at the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1993.

He is currently the inaugural director of FORWARD, The Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia; CEO and founding partner of THEORICA; founder and CEO of cybersecurity education platform Upling; global education strategist for the Conversation Design Institute and co-founder of the School for Conversation Design; and creative director of Medicine Unboxed.

He was founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Nature research journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

He was previously the founding director of the learning platform HaileyburyX.