Peter J. Sandys

Peter J. Sandys was born and brought up in Hungary, where he was briefly imprisoned for attempting to escape from the country in 1963. After rehabilitation, graduating from technical high school, and finishing military service, he earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest. Following his successful defection to the West, he settled in the United States and earned a master’s degree in business administration from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a doctoral degree in international business from the University of California.

He held various engineering and project management positions, mostly in the aerospace industry, and published The Waning of the West: An Inconvenient Truism. Retired, he has one daughter and lives in Germany.