WAYNE PETERSON

Wayne Peterson is a retired career US Diplomat who served the United States for 32 years. For the last 17 years of his career, Mr. Peterson directed the Fulbright Scholarship Program, based in Washington, DC, but which is administered though US embassies throughout the world. Most recently, as part of his work at Fulbright, Mr. Peterson worked directly with Senator John Kerry on a humanitarian project in Vietnam.
Mr. Peterson started his international service in the Peace Corps, where he founded the successful S.O.S program in Brazil, a privately funded venture which provided aid to the very poorest citizens of that country. Melvin Laird, who later became Secretary of Defense under Richard M. Nixon, was a direct supporter of Mr. Peterson's project.
At the end of his Peace Corps tour of duty, Peterson was approached by the American ambassador in Brazil, who asked him to become a career diplomat and to serve in the embassy in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Peterson passed the qualifying examinations and was accepted into the U.S. Foreign Service before his Peace Corps term was over. For the next 13 years, he served in various diplomatic capacities in Latin America, Southeast Asia and, finally, Africa.
                                                                                                    

Mr. Peterson returned to Washington where he was awarded the directorship of the Fulbright Scholarship Program, a position he held for 17 years. In the course of his career, Mr. Peterson has had Thanksgiving dinner with Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethyl, he had a private meeting with President Richard M. Nixon, and he met Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson.
In addition to being a retired US Diplomat of distinction, Mr. Peterson is also a very spiritually evolved human being. He has led meditation groups for many years and is the author of the book, Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Beings, in which Mr. Peterson describes his direct encounters with spirit beings, such as Maitreya.