1. Peter Ackerman was an American businessman, the founder and former chairman of Americans Elect, and the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
20 Facts About Peter Ackerman
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Peter Ackerman was born in New York City, New York.
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Peter Ackerman received his undergraduate degree in political science from Colgate University.
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In 1983 Peter Ackerman helped to fund the Albert Einstein Institution, founded by his former PhD supervisor Gene Sharp.
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In 1989 Peter Ackerman consulted with student protesters from China following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
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Peter Ackerman was a series editor and principal content advisor in the television version of Steve York's 1999 Emmy-nominated film A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, which charts the history of civilian-based resistance in the 20th century.
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Peter Ackerman co-authored with Jack DuVall a book of the same title.
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In 2002, Peter Ackerman was the Executive Producer of the PBS documentary Bringing Down A Dictator, which chronicled the fall of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic by nonviolent means.
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Peter Ackerman has funded workshops for dissidents from Central Asia, Iran, Iraq and North Korea.
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Peter Ackerman funded the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, which was started in 2003 by student leaders who'd helped bring down Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic three years earlier.
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Peter Ackerman was a founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in 2002.
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In 2005 Peter Ackerman became a director of the Institute for Strategic Studies' IISS-US office.
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In 1973, Peter Ackerman joined the investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert.
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From 1978 to 1990, Peter Ackerman was Director of International Capital Markets Drexel until the company filed for bankruptcy.
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Peter Ackerman publicly denounced the treatment of Milken and other leaders at Drexel by the firm once the government began to investigate them.
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Peter Ackerman subsequently paid a $73 million settlement in a civil case brought against him by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Resolution Trust Corporation.
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Peter Ackerman was a member of the board of the Atlantic Council, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Peter Ackerman was the chair emeritus of the board of advisors of The Fletcher School at Tufts University, his alma mater, and was the former chair of the board of trustees of Freedom House, serving there from September 2005 until January 2009.
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In 2008, Peter Ackerman sat on the board for Unity08, an organization intended to fund third-party candidates.
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Peter Ackerman contributed the initial $5 million seed money to Americans Elect, a 2012 third-party Presidential nomination initiative, and served as chairman of its board of directors.