Per Wimmer, Space advocate and Future Space Traveller

Future space traveller and space advocate, Per Wimmer gave an inspirational speech and joined the think tank panel at the 2nd ELEVATE Space & Sustainability Conference in Monte-Carlo, Monaco.

Per Wimmer (born 1968) is a Danish space advocate, entrepreneur, financier and author.

On Oct 6, 2008, Per Wimmer participated in the World’s first tandem skydive above Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, with Ralph Mitchell as tandem master.

Wimmer is a founding astronaut with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. In 2001 holds a trip to space reservation with Space Adventures. In December 4, 2008 held a ticket to be the first astronaut on board the XCOR Lynx rocketplane (now canceled). He was expecting to be the first Danish citizen to enter space on board SpaceShipTwo, until Andreas Mogensen did it in 2015.

In September 2011, Per Wimmer published the book “Wall Street”, about the bubbles in the financial markets, with anecdotes from his career in the world of global finance. In June 2014 he published his second book “The Green Bubble” in Sweden for the think tank Timbro, which argues there is a green bubble in the renewable energy sector.