Peter H. Diamandis is Chairman of the X Prize foundation, a non-profit education organization promoting the formation of space-related prizes. Dr. Diamandis also serves as President and Chief Operating Officer of Angel Technologies Corporation.

In 1989, Dr. Diamandis founded International MicroSpace, Inc. (IMI), a commercial launch company, which was later acquired by CTA Incorporated, where he served as vice president for commercial space. In 1987, Diamandis co-founded the International Space University (ISU) based in Strasbourg, France, and currently serves as a Trustee. Dr. Diamandis received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in aerospace engineering from MIT and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Diamandis has received a number of awards including MIT's Kresge Award, the 1986 Space Industrialization Fellowship Award, the 1988 Aviation Week and Space Technology laurel, the 1993 Space Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, and the Russian 1995 K.E. Tsiolkovsky Award.