P W Singer
Biography
Dr Peter Warren Singer (AB, Princeton University; PhD, Harvard University) is Senior Fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC. He is the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings’s 90-year history. He has worked for Harvard University, the International Peace Academy, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In his personal capacity, Singer served as coordinator of the Obama ‘08 campaign’s defense-policy task force. Singer is the author of the book Corporate Warriors (Cornell, 2003), which introduced the study of private military firms, and Children at War (Pantheon, 2005), which explored the rise of another new force in modern warfare—child soldier groups. His latest book is Wired for War (Penguin, 2009), which explores the implications of robotics on the battlefield. For further information, see http://www.pwsinger.com
