Peter Warren Singer is a strategist and one of the world's leading experts on 21st-century security issues. He is a Strategist at Useful Fiction LLC, a Senior Fellow at New America, and a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University. Described in the Wall Street Journal as "the premier futurist in the national-security environment," he was named by the Smithsonian as one of the nation's 100 leading innovators, by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues, by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers, and by Onalytica as one of the ten most influential voices in the world on cybersecurity and 20th most influential in the field of AI.
Singer is the author of seven books, including the bestsellers Wired for War, Ghost Fleet, LikeWar, and Burn-In. He has consulted for the U.S. Military, Defense Intelligence Agency, FBI, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Special Operations Command, as well as for entertainment and technology companies including Warner Bros., Dreamworks, Universal, HBO, Discovery, History Channel, and Call of Duty.
He served as coordinator of the Obama-2008 campaign's defense policy task force and was named by the U.S. Secretary of Defense to its Defense Policy Board. He has briefed audiences ranging from the U.S. Congress, CIA, and Pentagon Joint Staff to Google, Facebook, and the Fortune 50 CEOs, as well as audiences at universities including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge.