Peter David Pedersen worked as director of a Tokyo based company organizing management seminars and international symposia for owners of small and medium sized enterprises from 1995-98, inviting international speakers such as Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, Alvin Toffler, John Naisbitt, Lester Thurow, Peter Drucker and Lester Brown to Japan.
After that, from 2000-2001, he was the first foreign anchor of a major news program in Japan at Tokyo MX TV for 16 months.
He was also Co-founder and CEO of E-Square Inc., one of Japan’s first sustainability/CSR consultancies, a position he held from 2000-2011.
In 2015, he co-founded NELIS – Next Leaders’ Initiative for Sustainability, which aims to connect, inspire and empower young practitioners in the field of sustainability and social innovation worldwide. He began teaching as a Shizenkan University professor in 2019.