Peter Buttigieg is a candidate for mayor of his hometown of South Bend. As an Associate with McKinsey & Company, he worked in retail, logistics, and energy and served as a civilian economic advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan. He holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Bachelors in History and Literature from Harvard College, where he was student president of the Institute of Politics and led the Institute's annual study of youth attitudes on politics. He has worked on Capitol Hill, at NBC in Chicago, and in Congressional, Gubernatorial, and Presidential campaigns with a specialty in policy research and debate preparation. He also worked at The Cohen Group, an international strategic consulting firm in Washington. His commentary has appeared on NPR, Boston local television and radio, the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. The co-founder of the Democratic Renaissance Project, Peter was the Democratic nominee for Indiana State Treasurer in 2010. He is an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.