Speaker Biography

Peter Swan

President

International Space Elevator Consortium

Peter Swan, Ph.D., is President of the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) and team lead for developing the space elevators. Peter is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and Fellow of AIAA and the British Interplanetary Society. He graduated from the USMA, 1968, and served 20 years in the Air Force. His Ph.D. was in spacecraft systems from UCLA. He joined the Iridium satellite program leading to 92 satellites in orbit. He then joined Teaching Science and Technology, Inc. teaching space systems engineering. He continues to teach at Arizona State University for their OLLI classes. His latest books include Road to the Space Elevator Era [2019], Space Elevators are the Green Road to Space [2021], and Space Elevators are the Transportation Story of the 21st Century [2020].