Peter Schwartz (futurist)

At this point, they emigrated to America as stateless aliens on the S/S Stavangarfjord, arriving at the Port of New York in April 1951 and like nearly all displaced persons were taken to Ellis Island.

in aeronautical engineering, Schwartz taught high school in Philadelphia and worked in the innovative student housing program at UC Davis.

In 1972 he became an employee at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), where he began to develop his unique method of scenario planning, and rose to director of the Strategic Environment Center.

He serves on the Research Innovation and Enterprise Council of Singapore and in 2014 was appointed an International Distinguished Fellow of the Prime Minister's Office.

[9] Schwartz founded the Global Business Network (GBN) in 1988 in his Berkeley basement with several close friends including Napier Collyns, Jay Ogilvy and Stewart Brand.

Schwartz called GBN an “information hunting and gathering company”, and describes it as a high level networking and corporate research agency.