Peter Hayes

As founder and executive director of the Nautilus Institute, Peter Hayes works at the nexus of security, environment and energy policy. Best known for innovative cooperative engagement strategies in North Korea, he has developed techniques at Nautilus Institute for seeking near-term solutions to global security and sustainability problems and applied them in East Asia, Australia and South Asia.  He has visited North Korea seven times, including several visits to implement the U.S.-DPRK Village Windpower project, for which he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 2000.  Hayes is a Professor of International Relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.