Since founding AIDG, an NGO that supports small infrastructure companies in Haiti and Guatemala, in 2005, Peter has become an active voice for poverty issues, speaking at the World Bank, Harvard, MIT and other forums on technology, entrepreneurship and SME finance. His work with AIDG has been featured in Fast Company, Popular Mechanics, NPR and Forbes. He has served as a judge for the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet competition. He was a 2006 Echoing Green Fellow, a 2008 Waldzell Institute Architect of the Future, and a 2010 TED Senior Fellow. His work in Haiti has been highlighted by the Clinton Global Initiative. Before founding AIDG he worked both in the information technology field and on an organic farm and horse ranch doing infrastructure improvement work. Peter is also principal at Fifty Frogs, a small invention firm. He tinkers in water systems, sanitation systems, renewable energy and sustainable building. He received a BA from Yale University in philosophy and psychology in 1998.