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Peter Idusogie was born in London, England. His Late father was a United Nations diplomat. His mother was an elementary school teacher. After a few years in Europe, Peter moved to Africa with his parents Ephraim and Grace. On the continent that birthed civilization, Peter grew up in both Ghana and Nigeria. In 1984, Peter traveled to the United States to pursue the dream of America and became a U.S citizen. Peter attended university at Gustavo’s Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota and graduated with a degree in Political Science. Peter has visited many parts of Minnesota and traveled extensively within the United States. He has spent the last 20 years in Minnesota. Peter began his political career with Clean Water Action as a grassroots canvasser, Field manager and lobbyist.

He established himself as an extremely capable fundraiser and activist for people’s right to live in a clean and healthy world. Peter quickly became know for his ability to deliver powerful messages which mobilized people to act. This gift for stirring the hearts and minds of people earned him numerous public accolades and awards. His first foray into the free market was with Enterprise Rent-A-Car – the largest privately held rental car organization in the world. Peter rose quickly within the organization winning several awards for fleet growth and profitability. Peter eventually ran the Airport Branch, the largest Enterprise branch located in Minneapolis from 1997 to 1999. Having conquered the rental industry, in January of 2000, Peter became one of the first African Americans in 30 years to be employed with the prestigious Hayden and Associates, then the largest executive search firm in Minnesota. After contributing to the success that led Hayden to be acquired by TMP Worldwide (NASDAQ: TMPQ), Peter now works with Hudson Global Resources which was cut out of TMP to form a separate company as the 5^th largest executive search firm in the world.

In this capacity Peter has assisted Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies through consulting, identifying and recruiting mission critical executive candidates. In addition, Peter is a Certified Personal Consultant (CPC) and a member of the National Association of Personnel Services. Peter’s experience as an executive recruiter and consultant has given him a unique view of the influencing forces and results of our current economy as well as the insight that we need to forge a new path back to prosperity in our business sector. Above all it became crystal clear that there was a clear disconnect between international economic policy and second district domestic policy here at home.

Thus in December of 2003, Peter decided to channel his international background, his passion for social justice and his business experience into the race for Congress. It did not take long for people in the district to see the uniqueness of his message and his ability to bring people of various political persuasions to support a common agenda. In the course of his campaign, Peter boldly articulated a vision for the district and America that included the following

Ø Advocated a bold and dynamic approach to achieve accountability and integrity in government.

Ø Developed a non partisan approach to run for public office by stressing unity and focusing on ideas & solutions versus finger pointing and blame game.

Ø Championed the creation of a new economy promoting the alignment of new businesses with good stewardship of the environment within the matrix of a market economy.

Ø Called for Fiscal financial discipline and a balanced budget, spoke out on the need for a positive change in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and the scrapping of the current unilateralist policy.

Ø Demanded sweeping changes in our defense policy to reflect the new threat in our midst. Called for new thinking in the defense department that focused on the improvement of the quality of life of our men and women in uniform and defense based weapons to protect them versus building weapon systems that were unsuitable in the current war on terrorism and future conflicts. Called for waste management and an audit to check the excesses of the Pentagon and the Military industrialized complex.

After a hard fought race for the endorsement, Peter narrowly lost to Teresa Daly on the third ballot. In the interest of party unity, Peter opted not to contest the primary election despite mounting pressure from enthusiastic supporters. He remains today the first generation American from Africa to have made a serious run for federal office in Minnesota. Peter continues to speak out on in a non partisan way, on foreign policy and Economic security issues.