Christine Peterson
Foresight Nanotech Institute
Biography
Christine Peterson is co-founder and vice president of public policy of the Foresight Nanotech Institute, the leading nanotechnology public interest group. She writes, lectures and briefs the media on nanotechnology. She directs the Foresight Conferences on Molecular Nanotechnology and organizes the Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes. She also works with Freedom Technology Ventures, and serves on the advisory board of Alameda Capital, the International Council on Nanotechnology, California's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology, and the editorial advisory board of NASA's Nanotech Briefs. In 1992, with K. Eric Drexler and Gayle Pergamit, she wrote Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution, and coauthored Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work with Gayle Pergamit.