MIT-Educated Physicist, Social Entrepreneur, and Founder of the Foundation for Climate Restoration
Peter Fiekowsky is an American physicist, engineer, and serial entrepreneur recognized globally for pioneering the field of climate restoration. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also taught, Peter began his distinguished career contributing real-time software support for the NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory and serving as a computer scientist at the Fairchild/Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Palo Alto. Leveraging his extensive technical foundation, he went on to found Automated Visual Inspection LLC, a highly successful machine vision company, ultimately amassing twenty-seven patents related to high-resolution imaging and automated semiconductor inspection technologies.
Driven by a lifelong mission to leave a flourishing world for future generations, Peter spent over three decades acting as a dedicated citizen lobbyist for global poverty reduction and progressive environmental policy. In the mid-2010s, recognizing that traditional emission mitigation and net-zero frameworks were insufficient to guarantee long-term human survival, he systematically shifted his focus from slowing global warming to actively reversing it. He collaborated closely with leading academic and entrepreneurial innovators to establish climate restoration as a distinct scientific and economic paradigm. This effort culminated in 2017 when he co-founded the Foundation for Climate Restoration, where he served as Board Chairman until 2020. He has since been instrumental in launch-scaling parallel initiatives, including Methane Action, the Climate Restoration Safety and Governance Board, and the Stable Planet Alliance.
When presenting to global policymakers, corporate executives, and top-tier academic institutions, Peter delivers an urgent yet profoundly optimistic message rooted in rigorous physics and economic viability. He introduces audiences to the scalable, biomimetic technologies capable of permanently removing over a trillion tons of legacy carbon dioxide and methane from the atmosphere by 2050. As an active investor and advisor to pioneering ventures in synthetic limestone, clean energy fintech, and ocean restoration, he effectively bridges the gap between scientific possibility and corporate market strategy. Peter dismantles political and physical misconceptions around climate solutions, empowering today’s industrial and political leaders with the exact technological toolkits needed to confidently restore a pre-industrial climate.
Learn more
- Official Website: https://www.peterfiekowsky.com/about
- Scientific & Advocacy Substack: https://climaterestoration.substack.com/
- Foundation for Climate Restoration: https://climaterestorationalliance.org/ambassadors/peter-fiekowsky/