Dr Peter Heslam is Director of Transforming Business, a research project on enterprise solutions to poverty at Cambridge University. It is based in the Divinity Faculty, where Peter is a Fellow, but has close links with the University's Judge Business School and with international business. Peter has degrees in social science, and in theology from Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Peter has an established international reputation for work at the interface between spirituality and culture, particularly business, economics and politics. He has published widely, including a book on the Dutch political theorist and former Prime Minister, Abraham Kuyper. His writings on capitalism and globalization include Globalization: Unravelling the New Capitalism and Globalization and the Good.

Peter is a Senior Member of Trinity College, Cambridge, a Senior Research Associate of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Advisory Board member of the journal Faith in Business.