Nate Ackerman
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Nate Ackerman is a British
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-American
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 wrestler
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. He is the son of Peter Ackerman
Peter Ackerman
Peter Ackerman is the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and the managing director of Rockport Capital Incorporated. He chaired the board of trustees of Freedom House from September 2005 until January 2009. He is a member of the Board of the Council on Foreign...

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Ackerman competed in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games
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 as part of the Great Britain National Team. He also competed in the 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005 World Championships. Ackerman's best international finish was 10th at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Ackerman was born in New York City
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, New York
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, United States
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 to Joanne Leedom-Ackerman and Peter Ackerman
Peter Ackerman
Peter Ackerman is the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and the managing director of Rockport Capital Incorporated. He chaired the board of trustees of Freedom House from September 2005 until January 2009. He is a member of the Board of the Council on Foreign...

. He was educated at the American School in London and then Harvard University
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, where he graduated in June 2000. He received his Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
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 in mathematics in 2006 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. He is currently a visiting professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley
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