Advisory Board & Affiliates

The Center invites distinguished thinkers, educators, researchers, social innovators, entrepreneurs, policy makers, artists, and other leaders from diverse cultural, religious, and educational backgrounds to contribute to its objectives.

Jagdish N. Bhagwati
University Professor (Economics), Columbia University

Alexander Berzin
Author & Translator

Kim Cameron
William Russell Kelly Professor Ross School of Business and Professor School of Education, University of Michigan

Rodrigo Canales
Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior
Yale School of Management

Clint Sidle
Director of the Park Leadership Fellows Program
Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University

Harvey G. Cox, Jr.
Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard University

Richard J. Davidson
Director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Jane E. Dutton
Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan

Ernst Fehr
Director of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research
University of Zurich

Owen Flanagan
James B Duke Professor and Professor of Neurobiology
Duke University

Jonathan Foley
Director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of the Minnesota
Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

Robert H. Frank
Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

Daniel Goleman
Co-founder, Social and Emotional Learning

Ursula Goodenough
Professor of Biology, Washington University

Steven Hamburg
Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund

P. Jeffrey Hopkins
Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia

Prasanna Hota
Former Secretary for Health, India
Director, Norway India Partnership Initiative (NIPI)

Jon Kabat-Zinn
Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School

Fr. Thomas Keating, OCSO,
Founder, Contemplative Outreach

Thupten Jinpa Langri
Translator & Author; Professor of Religion, McGill University

David Mindell
Director of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

Drazen Prelec
Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management

Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Ford Associate Profesor of Law and Development
MIT Director, MIT Program on Human Rights & Justice

Anantanand Rambachan
Professor of Religion, St. Olaf College

Janet Rankin
Teaching and Learning Laboratory, MIT

Matthieu Ricard
Translator & Author

Michael J. Sandel
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government (Kennedy School)
Harvard University

Bishwapriya Sanyal
MIT Faculty Chair, Ford Professor, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Clifford Saron
Assistant Research Scientist, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain

Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi

A. Rae Simpson
Program Director, Center for Work, Family & Personal Life, MIT

Karan Singh
Former Indian Ambassador to the USA

Tania Singer
Professor, Center for the Study of Social and Neural System, University of Zurich

Robert AF Thurman
Professor of Buddhism, Columbia University

Robert D. Truog, MD
Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesia, & Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Director of Clinical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
Executive Director, Institute for Professionalism & Ethical Practice

Tempa Tsering
Representative of HH the Dalai Lama in New Delhi

B. Allan Wallace
Founder, Santa Barbara Institute

Arthur Zajonc
Professor of Physics, Amherst College