About the Moderator: Pete Peterson Dean, Braun Family Dean’s Chair, Pepperdine School of Public Policy

// About the Moderator

Pete Peterson is a leading national speaker and writer on issues related to civic participation, and the use of technology to make government more responsive and transparent. He was the first executive director of the bi-partisan organization, Common Sense California, which in 2010 joined with the Davenport Institute at the School of Public Policy to become the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership. In 2008, he developed the organization’s annual Public Engagement Grant Program, which has provided over $500,000.00 in grants over the last several years to dozens of municipal governments across California. Peterson has also consulted on several of these projects with local governments, and has directly facilitated public meetings.

Peterson has co-created and currently co-facilitates the training seminar, “Public Engagement: The Vital Leadership Skill in Difficult Times” a program that has been attended by over 2,000 municipal officials, and he also co-created and co-facilitates the seminar, “Gov 2.0: What Public Officials Need to Know.”

Pete Peterson Braun Family Dean’s Chair Pepperdine University School of Public Policy

“Rebuilding Better, was originally conceived to discuss how different sectors, the business sector, private sector, nonprofit sector, philanthropy, and government, which have all been impacted by the pandemic can work together in new creative and innovative ways, very Los Angeles ways, to respond to the pandemic.”

Pete Peterson Braun Family Dean’s Chair Pepperdine University School of Public Policy