Peter L. Allen

Peter L. Allen is a scholar, author, business executive, professor, and collector, who as a college student spent a summer as the personal aide and driver to controversial power broker Roy Cohn. He holds degrees from Haverford College, the Université de Poitiers, the University of Chicago (Ph.D.), and Wharton School (M.B.A.) and is the author of The Art of Love (1992), The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present (2000), and the co-author of At Home around the World: The Short-Term Rentals Handbook for Guests, Hosts, Neighbors, and Governments (2018). His eclectic career has included teaching at Yale-National University of Singapore College, Nanyang Business School, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago; working at McKinsey & Company as a consultant and member of the strategy practice; serving as the founder and first director of Google University, the company's first central learning and development program, and first Head of People, then Vice President of External Affairs, at Agoda, the 4500-person Asian travel subsidiary of Priceline.