Peter Ackerman is the Managing Director of Rockport Capital Incorporated, a private investment firm. Since its inception in 1990, Rockport has made numerous direct investments in fields as diverse as movie libraries, publishing, propane distribution, textiles, custom labeling, wax refining, auto part remanufacturing, variable life insurance, SMS integration, and internet-based food retailing. From 1978 to 1990 he was Director of International Capital Markets at Drexel Burnham Lambert where he structured, financed, and invested in hundreds of recapitalizations including the largest and most complex leveraged acquisitions of that period.
Dr. Ackerman holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where he is the Chairman of the Board of Overseers, and is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Freedom House. He also sits on the Board of Tufts University, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a member of the U.S. Advisory Council of the United States Institute of Peace, and the Business Advisory Council of United States Olympic Committee.
Dr. Ackerman co-authored Strategic Nonviolent Conflict published in 1994, and A Force More Powerful: a Century of Nonviolent Conflict. The latter volume was a companion book for the Emmy nominated documentary of the same title which appeared nationally on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in September 2000, which he was the series editor and principal content advisor. Dr. Ackerman was also executive producer of Bringing Down A Dictator, the Peabody award-winning documentary that chronicled the fall of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia which premiered on PBS in March 2002. He is the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
Strategic Nonviolent Conflict published in 1994, and A Force More Powerful: a Century of Nonviolent Conflict. The latter volume was a companion book for the Emmy nominated documentary of the same title which appeared nationally on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in September 2000, which he was the series editor and principal content advisor. Dr. Ackerman was also executive producer of Bringing Down A Dictator, the Peabody award-winning documentary that chronicled the fall of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia which premiered on PBS in March 2002. He is the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
