Explorer and National Geographic writer Dan Buettner is the founder of Quest Network, Inc. and has produced more than a dozen interactive expeditions. His Quests are real-time expeditions designed to enlist an online audience's participation in solving some of science's biggest questions. The Quests have generated more than two billion media impressions and garnered an online educational audience of 12 million students in 80,000 classrooms.

Buettner has biked more than 120,000 miles around the globe, holds three Guinness World Records in long distance cycling and has been accepted into the Explorer's Club. He is considered the father of the interactive expedition, and the Washington Post has called his Quests "the most successful experiment in interactive education to date."

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Accomplishments

• National Magazine Award finalist: The Secrets of Living Longer

• 2006 Outward Bound Compass Award for community service

• Outside Magazine's 2005 "All Star Innovator"

• Three Guinness World Records for cycling six continents

• Emmy Award-winning documentary producer

• Scientific American Book Award

• NACA Speaking Hall of Fame

• Appearances on CNN, Late Night with David Letterman, ABC's Good Morning America, Primetime Live, and the NBC Today Show

• Writer for Outside, LIFE, and National Geographic magazines

• Profiled in People, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, and USA Today

• Spokesman for Target Stores’ "Camp Target" line of outdoor products

• NBC Today Show “Athlete of the Week” for cycling around the world

• Recipient of the Minnesota Book Award for Sovietrek

• Recipient of Scientific American’s Young Reader Book Award

• National Association of College Activities “Hall of Fame” Lecturer
  

• Created Public Radio International’s Sound Learning educational program

• Board of Directors of the British Virgin Islands Parks’ National Trust and Loft Literary Center