Peter Nelson was brought up in Australia, attended the Royal Military College Duntroon and the later entered Medicine at Adelaide University. With neither suiting him, he completed an economics degree at Sydney University to apprentice at Price-Waterhouse in their MCS Division and later form his own Chartered Accounting practice. Wanting wider fields, he joined the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations covering first restructuring of SOEs in Tanzania and Kenya before spending four years with the Asian Development Bank in Manila. Since then he has covered consulting assignments in 52 countries for all major donors focusing of corporate re-engineering, while lecturing part time under various university MBA programs. He continues with a current focus on integrating cooperation between government development plans and private sector support.
