Jeremy Rifkin graduated in Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania), and in International Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from the Tufts University.

An activist of the United States peace movement during the sixties and the seventies founded in 1969 the Citizens Commission with the purpose making public the war crimes committed by the Americans during the Vietnam War. He is the founder and President of the Foundation on Economic Trends (FOET) and President of the Greenhouse Crisis Foundation. He has written numerous books.