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Board of Advisors
The Board of Advisors possess expertise in fields covering the full range of the foundation's activities and provide guidance on particular projects and larger strategic initiatives.
Pranab Das North America
Professor of Physics at Elon University, Das was Program Director of the Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality program and its successor, the GPSS Major Awards Project. These two programs identified and supported research in science and the human spirit by research teams around the world. Presently, Das serves as executive editor of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) Library Project, a program to select a library of essential texts spanning science and religion and its related fields.
Professor of Physics at Elon University, Das was Program Director of the Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality program and its successor, the GPSS Major Awards Project. These two programs identified and supported research in science and the human spirit by research teams around the world. Presently, Das serves as executive editor of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) Library Project, a program to select a library of essential texts spanning science and religion and its related fields. Collections of this library's books are being distributed on a competitive basis to institutions of higher learning worldwide and an accompanying website (www.issrlibrary.org) and physical volume, the Companion to the ISSR Library, are in progress. Das studied as an undergraduate at Reed College, with theses in both theoretical physics and international studies His Ph.D. is from the University of Texas at Austin where he was a member of the Ilya Prigogine Center for Complex Systems. His academic work spans the fields of neuroscience, nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory, the physics of granular materials, media studies, and science and the human spirit.
Gurcharan Das Eurasia and Australia
Author, management guru, and public intellectual, Das is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma (Penguin 2009) which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘why be good?’ His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age, and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC.
Author, management guru, and public intellectual, Das is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma (Penguin 2009) which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘why be good?’ His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age, and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC. Das writes a regular column on Sundays for the Times of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Eenadu, Sakal and other papers and periodic guest columns for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in philosophy and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. He was CEO of Procter & Gamble India and later managing director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (strategic planning). In 1995, Das took early retirement to become a full-time writer. He is currently on the boards of a number of companies and is a regular speaker to the top managements of the world’s largest corporations. His other literary works include a novel, A Fine Family, a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm, and an anthology, Three English Plays (Oxford), consisting of Larins Sahib, a prize-winning play about the British in India, which has been presented at the Edinburgh Festival; Mira, which was produced off-Broadway to critical acclaim from New York critics; and 9 Jakhoo Hill which has been performed in major Indian cities.
Celia Deane-Drummond Eurasia and Australia
Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Deane-Drummond graduated in natural sciences from Cambridge University and obtained a doctorate in plant physiology at Reading University prior to postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and Cambridge University. She lectured in the botany department at Durham University before completing an honors degree in theology and a doctorate in systematic theology from Manchester University.
Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Deane-Drummond graduated in natural sciences from Cambridge University and obtained a doctorate in plant physiology at Reading University prior to postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and Cambridge University. She lectured in the botany department at Durham University before completing an honors degree in theology and a doctorate in systematic theology from Manchester University. Previously, Deane-Drummond held a professorial chair in theology and the biological sciences at the University of Chester, and was director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences. During her scientific career, she lectured both nationally and internationally and published over thirty scientific articles. Since then, she has published numerous articles, books, edited collections, and contributions to books, focusing particularly on the engagement of systematic theology and the biological sciences alongside practical, ethical discussion in bioethics and environmental ethics. She has also lectured widely on all areas relating theology and theological ethics with different aspects of the biosciences. Deane-Drummond is co-editor of a new international journal entitled Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, to be published with Mohr Stoebeck and launched in 2013. Her more recent books include Creation through Wisdom (2000), Brave New World (2003), Reordering Nature (2003), The Ethics of Nature (2004), Wonder and Wisdom (2006), Genetics and Christian Ethics (2006), Future Perfect: God, Medicine and Human Identity (ed., 2010), Ecotheology (2008), Christ and Evolution (2009), Creaturely Theology (ed., 2009), Seeds of Hope: Facing the Challenge of Climate Justice (2010), Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere (ed., 2011), and Rising to Life (ed., 2011).