ABOUT
Peter Daou has advised leading campaigns, companies and organizations including Hillary Clinton for President, the United Nations Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, Intel, Microsoft, AARP, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, Planned Parenthood, PR Newswire, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation and Nuclear Threat Initiative. Peter directed netroots outreach and online rapid response for John Kerry’s presidential campaign. In 2006, he became Hillary Clinton’s senior online strategist and in 2007 was named Internet Director for Hillary Clinton for President.
Peter has been cited frequently by news outlets including the Washington Post, AP, ABC News, New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He has been a speaker and panelist at numerous conferences including Harvard Business School’s Cyberposium and Forbes MEET. Peter’s site, The Daou Report, which he published until joining Clinton’s team, was a popular blog and opinion aggregator. His widely-read analysis of netroots influence, The Triangle: Limits of Blog Power, has been described by techPresident as “a seminal essay on the interaction between the blossoming blogosphere, the political establishment, and the press.”
Before entering politics, Peter was a successful music producer, artist manager and label owner, releasing albums on Columbia/Sony and MCA/Universal. He wrote and co-produced three #1 Billboard Club singles, licensed compositions to dozens of films and television shows, appeared on recordings by artists ranging from Bjork and Diana Ross to Mariah Carey and Miles Davis, and was featured in Keyboard, URB, Vibe, Billboard, the NY Times and Newsweek. In the early nineties, as part of the incipient jazz-electronic music scene, he toured the US and Europe with prominent DJs and artists, including Moby and Guru.
Peter grew up in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. At 15, he was conscripted into the Lebanese Forces, a sectarian militia, and served until he entered the American University of Beirut. He moved to New York in the early eighties to complete his BA in philosophy at NYU.
Peter lives in New York with his wife and daughter and serves as a digital media adviser to several organizations and campaigns.
