Peter Mowforth (born 27 October 1953) is a British businessman, ecommerce specialist and Chief Executive of INDEZ Ltd, an ecommerce agency based in Scotland. Formerly a Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence research scientist who co-founded the Turing Institute. He set up and ran the First Robot Olympics.

Peter Mowforth was born in Sheffield, England on 27 October 1953. He studied neurophysiology and physics in London. With Royal Society funding he moved to the University of Cambridge to research early visual perception mechanisms with Horace Barlow. Mowforth earned a PhD from the University of Sheffield on the theory and psychophysics of stereo vision.

He joined the University of Edinburgh's Department of Machine Intelligence & Perception in 1982 to study the application of machine learning to robot vision.

Following new funding from the US in response to Japan's Fifth Generation project, Mowforth along with Professor Donald Michie and Tim Niblett, Mowforth jointly founded the Turing Institute named in memory of Alan Turing who had worked alongside Michie at Bletchley Park. The Institute then moved from Edinburgh to Glasgow. It formed a partnership with the University of Strathclyde where Mowforth held an honorary lectureship.

In 1990, Mowforth founded the First Robot Olympics. The event ran from 27 to 28 September, involved teams from 12 different countries in a variety of competitions, had over 2,500 visitors and is features in the Guinness Book of Records.

He was Director of the British Machine Vision Association (1991-1993) where he organised and ran the British Machine Vision Conference in 1991.

After the dissolution of the Turing Institute, Mowforth co-founded INDEZ, in 1995.

Mowforth provides advice to the Scottish Government on matters concerned with ecommerce and trade.