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Board of Directors B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., President & Founder B. Alan Wallace began his studies of Tibetan Buddhism, language, and
culture in 1970 at the University of Göttingen in Germany and then
continued his studies over the next fourteen years in India, Switzerland,
and the United States. Ordained as a Buddhist monk by H. H. the Dalai
Lama in 1975, he has taught Buddhist meditation and philosophy worldwide
since 1976 and has served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars
and contemplatives, including the Dalai Lama. After graduating summa
cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy
of science, he returned his monastic vows and went on to earn his Ph.D.
in religious studies at Stanford University. He then taught for four
years in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California
at Santa Barbara, and is now the founder and president of the Santa Barbara
Institute for Consciousness Studies (http://sbinstitute.com). He has
edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than thirty books
on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface
between science and religion. Paul Ekman, Ph.D. Paul Ekman was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and New York University. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Adelphi University (1958), after a one year internship at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. After two years as a Clinical Psychology Officer in the U.S. Army, he returned to Langley Porter where he worked from 1960 to 2004. His research on facial expression and body movement began in 1954, as the subject of his Master's thesis in 1955 and his first publication in 1957. In his early work, his approach to nonverbal behavior showed his training in personality. Over the next decade, a social psychological and cross-cultural emphasis characterized his work, with a growing interest in an evolutionary and semiotic frame of reference. In addition to his basic research on emotion and its expression, he has, for the last thirty years, also been studying deceit. Currently, he is the director of the Paul Ekman Group, LLC (PEG), a small company that produces training devices relevant to emotional skills, and is initiating new research relevant to national security and law enforcement. In 1971, he received a Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health; that Award has been renewed in 1976, 1981, 1987, 1991, and 1997. His research was supported by fellowships, grants and awards from the National Institute of Mental Health for over forty years. Articles reporting on Dr. Ekman's work have appeared in Time Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Psychology Today, The New Yorker and others, both American and foreign. Numerous articles about his work have also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and other national newspapers. He has appeared on 48 Hours, Dateline, Good Morning America, 20/20, Larry King, Oprah, Johnny Carson and many other TV programs. He has also been featured on various public television programs such as News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and Bill Moyers' The Truth About Lying. Ekman is co-author of Emotion in the Human Face (1971), Unmasking the Face (1975), Facial Action Coding System (1978), editor of Darwin and Facial Expression (1973), co-editor of Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research (1982), Approaches to Emotion (1984), The Nature of Emotion (1994), What the Face Reveals (1997), and author of Face of Man (1980), Telling Lies (1985, paperback, 1986, second edition, 1992, third edition, 2001), Why Kids Lie (1989, paperback 1991), and Emotions Revealed, (2003). He is the editor of the third edition of Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1998). He has published more than 100 articles. Jerome Engel, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Jerome Engel, Jr., MD, PhD, is the Jonathan Sinay Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Chief of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at the UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, Director of the UCLA Seizure Disorder Center, and a member of the Brain Research Institute. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1960, his advanced degrees from Stanford University in 1965 and 1966, and completed his training in neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1972. Dr. Engel is past president of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS), the American Epilepsy Society (AES), and the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE), and is past co-chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Campaign against Epilepsy. His bibliography lists over 900 papers and 25 books, including the definitive Epilepsy: A Comprehensive Textbook and Surgical Treatment of the Epilepsies. He is principal investigator on three research grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and has received numerous awards and honors, including a Fulbright Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Javits Award from the NINDS. Richard Gunther Over the years Richard Gunther has served and is serving on numerous Boards of Directors, including public television station KCET, Los Angeles City and County and California State Commissions, the Esalen Institute, California School of Professional Psychology, Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Americans for Peace Now, Vice President Gore’s “Builders for Peace” and was named on former President Nixon’s “Enemies List”. His Master’s degree thesis on adult development led to his book “Who Needs Mid-Life At your Age?”, the creation of the Legacy Awards Program with AARP which honored senior volunteerism, and his service on the California State Commission on Aging. In 2002 Richard received the UCLA Community Service Award. A major focus of interest now is in the field of micro enterprise, serving on the Board and several committees of the Grameen Foundation USA. He is now completing his new book "How High Is Up". He is happily married to his wife of 60 years, has three married sons, three grandchildren, enjoys bicycle trips, tennis and a stimulating life of business, service and love. Jorge Larrea Jorge Larrea is a successful investor and entrepreneur with nearly 20 years of leadership in the areas of addiction counseling and Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs). His EAPs have been implemented in several countries around the world through PPC Worldwide, a company in which he is a major partner. Besides having founded and directed a number of business related to wellness counseling in the workplace, Jorge has been a trailblazer for Mexican non-governmental organizations. As President of Mexico’s number one addiction rehabilitation clinic, Monte Fénix, he implemented the first ISO 9001 certification for an organization of its type. Under his leadership, Monte Fénix became the first Mexican organization to be a member of the Nacional Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP). Throughout his professional career, Jorge has been active in promoting mental and physical wellbeing through a variety of programs with state and federal governments, as well as in the private sector. In doing so, he has worked with ScrippsHealth and the University of California, among other prestigious institutions. Agustin Barrios Gomez Agustin Barrios Gomez is a Mexican journalist and entrepreneur. After attending Phillips Exeter Academy, he graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1993. He has been in both private and public life, including a successful career as a radio talk show host and running for office in Mexico City in 2003. In 2005, as a Carolina Foundation Scholar, he received his Masters in Politics from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, where he studied the European Union and its potential lessons for the process of North American integration. He is co-founder and president of SolutionsAbroad, a company that provides services for Americans interested in Mexico, and director of the Center for Strategic Studies, a consulting firm. Among many other organizations, he has been advisor to the US Embassy in Mexico. He is also a member of the prestigious Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, a sister organization to the US Council on Foreign Relations and is often interviewed on television regarding North American integration.
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