Peter Leslie Wallace is an Australian-born Filipino businessman and business columnist who started his professional career as an electrical engineer.

He built a factory manufacturing maintenance products in the Philippines in 1975 for an American multi-national company.

Subsequently, he accepted the position of Chairman of a conglomerate, Columbian Philippines, Inc., and later was CEO of Getz Corporation, the largest trading company at the time.

[4][5] He is a regular opinion columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer since 2012.

[6] In 2019, Wallace was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as member of the Ease of Doing Business and Anti-Red Tape Council of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).