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Ed Malloy, BA
Fairfield, Iowa
Chair of the Board of Trustees
Former Mayor of Fairfield, Iowa (2020-2022), named one of the 15 Greenest Mayors in North America by MSN.com, 2008.
Chair of the Institutional Advancement Committee of the Board of Trustees
Executive Director for Grow Fairfield Economic Development Association
BA Psychology, Ricker College
John Hagelin, PhD, DWP
Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa
President of MIU and Honorary Chair of the Board of Trustees
Director of the Institute of Science, Technology ,and Public Policy
Professor of Physics
International administrator of the Global Country of World Peace, responsible for overseeing the expansion of Consciousness-Based programs in the United States
International Director of the Global Union of Scientists for Peace
President, David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace
Minister of Science and Technology, Global Country of World Peace
BA summa cum laude, Dartmouth College
MA, Harvard University
PhD, Harvard University
DWP Doctorate of World Peace, Maharishi University of World Peace
Yingwu (Andy) Zhong, MS, DCS
Beijing, China
Entrepreneur
Co-founder and CEO of both FunPlus and KingsGroup, two leading global game companies with operations in Europe, Asia and the U.S. with a mission of connecting people to break limits by creating amazing interactive entertainment that players love
Founder of FunPlus Phoenix, the 2019 League of Legends world championship esports team
Pioneer investor in digital interactive entertainment including games, live streaming, VR content, esports, and other innovative game related companies
Former engineering director and lead product manager at RockYou
Former research engineer at Bell Laboratories
BS Computer Science, Dalian University of Technology, China
MS Computer Science, Maharishi International University
DCS, Doctorate of Computer Science honoris causa, Maharishi International University
Tom Stanley, DSCI
Fairfield, Iowa
Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees
International administrator of the Global Country of World Peace since 2005, with responsibility from 2005 to 2007 for 8 states in the mountain and southwest US and, since 2007, for overseeing activities in countries including Ireland, Iceland, Mongolia, the Kingdom of Bhutan.
Resident of Fairfield since 1975, active in community service and affairs, on boards ranging from Habitat for Humanity, to the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center, to the recently established Jefferson County Community Forum, and as an at-large Councilman for the City of Fairfield
Doctorate in Supreme Political Science, Maharishi University of World Peace
Laura Wege, MS, LLM, DWP
Vero Beach, Florida
Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees
Former Deputy Director of the Trade Register Iasi, Romania
Former Legal Counselor for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Iași, Romania
BA and Law Degree from Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania
MS Psychology, Maharishi International University, Outstanding Student Award
LLM, Master of Laws in International Law, Merit Scholar, University of Miami
DWP, Doctor of World Peace honoris causa, Maharishi International University
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Maureen M. Wynne, JD, PhD
Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa
Chair of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees
Attorney
Administrator of the Global Country of World Peace with responsibility for implementing consciousness-based programs around the world
Secretary and Board member of Global Country of World Peace, organizations that share common goals with MIU
Former Dean of Faculty, Maharishi International University
Former City Attorney of Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa
BA, Art and Journalism, Trinity University
JD, University of Texas School of Law
PhD Law, Maharishi European Research University
Bevan Morris, DSCI
Fairfield, Iowa
President Emeritus of MIU
Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees
Prime Minister, Global Country of World Peace
Chair Emeritus, Board of Directors of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment
Chair of the Board of Directors, Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation (USA)
Member of the Board of Directors, Maharishi Global Development Fund
BA, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University (England)
MA Psychology and Philosophy, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University (England)
MSCI, Maharishi European Research University
DSCI, Maharishi European Research University
Rena Boone, DWP
Silver Spring, Maryland
Consciousness-Based Education Professional
Regional Director for the David Lynch Foundation, Washington, DC
Executive Director of the Meditation Center at Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus, Washington, DC
Former Director of Quiet Time, Ideal Academy Public Charter School, Washington, DC, 2010-2018
Former award-winning teacher at Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment, 1980-2007
BA Social Sciences, San Jose State University
Postgraduate year to obtain elementary and middle school teaching credential from the State of California, San Jose State University
DWP, Doctor of World Peace honoris causa, Maharishi International University
Bruce Currivan, MSE
Los Altos, California
Retired as Distinguished Engineer, Communication Systems at Broadcom
40 years of experience in technology development, including the first commercial Global Positioning System receiver
Author of many technical papers, book chapters and over 140 patents
Served as Chairman of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.14 Physical Layer Subgroup and contributed to international cable modem standards
BS Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
MSE Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Doctorate of Maharishi Vedic Science and Technologies, Maharishi European Research University
Diane Davis, MA
Fairfield, Iowa
Homemaker and artist
In-depth study of Maharishi Vedic Science, Maharishi Ayurveda and Vedic Approach to Health, in Fairfield, Iowa, Switzerland, Spain, and Vlodrop, Holland
BA Art, DePauw University
MA Foundations of Education, Maharishi International University
Jim Davis, MS
Fairfield, Iowa
Senior Vice President, Event Photography Group, 2007 to present
Founder and Senior Vice President Chappell Studio and Marathon Foto, 1974 to 2007 when company sold to Event Photography Group
Member of the Board of Directors, Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment
Member of the Board of Directors of African PTSD Relief Corporation
BA American Studies, University of Kansas
MS Education, Philosophical Foundations and Higher Education Administration, University of Kansas
Martin Davy, BA
Auckland, New Zealand
Teacher of the Transcendental Meditation Program in New Zealand
BA Maharishi Vedic Science, Maharishi International University
Susan Levin Dillbeck, PhD, DWP
Champaign, Illinois and Vlodrop, Netherlands
International Professor of Education, Maharishi International University
President, International Foundation of Consciousness-Based Education
Former International Vice President, Maharishi International University
Worked under Maharishi’s guidance in Consciousness-Based education from 1971 to 2008
BA Fine Arts, University of Illinois
MA, University of California at Berkeley
PhD Education, University of California at Berkeley
Doctorate of World Peace, Maharishi University of World Peace
Michael Dimick, MBA
Boise, Idaho
Businessman
BSCI, Maharishi European Research University
MBA, Maharishi International University
Barbara B. Dreier, MFA, DSCI
Fairfield, Iowa
Administrator of the Global Country of World Peace with responsibility for implementing consciousness-based programs for women around the world, primarily in education, health, and culture
AB Biology, Radcliffe and Harvard Colleges
MFA, Yale School of Art
Doctorate of Supreme Political Science, Maharishi University of World Peace
Tom Factor, BFA
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
International administrator of the Global Country of World Peace, responsible for overseeing the expansion of Consciousness-Based programs around the world
President, GVP, Inc., siting and executive development of 30 utility wind farms currently in operation
Co-Director Transcendental Meditation Center of Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Past director of National TM Public Awareness Campaigns
Past Director, Energy and Environment Division of the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy
BFA, California Institute of the Arts
Josephine B. Fauerso, MEd
San Antonio, Texas
Vice President of Amber Waves Music
Partner in Blanco Ventures
Writer on education and travel and active in historic preservation through her family’s museum and historic home in Texas
BS Education, University of California at Berkeley
MEd, Maharishi International University
Lorenza Garghetti, MD
Milan, Italy
Pediatrician and Neonatologist
Co-director of Maharishi Ayurveda in Italy
Member of the Board of Directors of Maharishi Colleges for Perfect Health for the Global Country of World Peace
Co-director of Ayurveda Maharishi Salute e Prevenzione Center (AMSEP), Milan, Italy
Former Co-director of the Maharishi Ayurveda Medical Doctors Course in Italy
MD Medicine and Surgery, Pediatrics and Neonatology, University of Milan Italy
Postgraduate work in intensive care for high risk premature newborns, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan
Nat Goldhaber, MA
San Antonio, Texas
Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures
Founder and CEO of TOPS, a computer networking company
Founder and CEO of Cybergold, an Internet marketing company
Emeritus member, Executive Board of the College of Letters and Science, UC Berkeley
BA, Maharishi International University
MA, University of California, Berkeley
W. Scott Gould, MBA, EdD
Bethesda, Maryland
CEO of Mountain Lake Associates, LLC, a technology enabled medical services firm
Senior Advisor with the Boston Consulting Group
Deputy Secretary/Chief Operating Officer for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for strategy, resources and management infrastructure
Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
26-year veteran of the U.S. Navy Reserves
AB, Cornell University, Philosophy
MBA, University of Rochester
EdD Education, Administration, and Finance, University of Rochester
Michael Heinrich, MS, DFJ Fellow
Mountain View, California
Entrepreneur
Founder and CEO of Oh My Green, affordable concierge-style kitchen management with tasty, nutritious foods and catering for such companies as Google and LyftOh and recipient of venture capital funds and incubator funds from Ycombinator, Stanford StartX, and Grand Central Tech
Bridgewater Associates, Westport, CT, hedge fund management
Bain and Company, management consulting
Microsoft and Sap, technology product management
BA and BS in Political Economy, Cognitive Science, and Business, UC Berkeley
Postgraduate Researcher, Harvard Business School
Certificate in Conflict Resolution, Harvard University
MS Management Science, Stanford University
DFJ Entrepreneurial Leadership Fellow, Stanford University
Scott Herriott, PhD, DWP
Fairfield, Iowa
MIU Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs
Professor of Management
Author of 12 scientific papers on economics, organization, and business strategy and three text books: College Algebra Through Functions and Models (Cengage, 2005), Feasibility Analysis for Sustainable Technologies: An Engineering-Economic Approach (Business Expert Press, 2015), and Metrics for Sustainable Business: Measures and Standards for the Assessment of Organizations (Routledge, 2016)
Former Dean of the College of Business Administration, Maharishi International University
Former member of the Accreditation Review Council of the Higher Learning Commission, Chicago, Illinois
Former business faculty member, University of Texas at Austin and University of Iowa 1984-1990
BA Mathematics, Dartmouth College
MA Educational Administration, Dartmouth College
PhD Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Nakisha Hobbs, EdD
Chicago, Illinois
Fourth-generation educator
Co-founder and Director of the Village Leadership Academy, Chicago, a kindergarten-through-8th-grade school with 700 students, whose focus is to transform urban youth into global leaders, incorporating the practice of the Transcendental Meditation® technique
Creator and co-facilitator of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy’s Summer Education Workshop: Advancing Racial Justice in Schools, University of Illinois at Chicago
Associate director, Office of Early Childhood Development, Illinois Department of Human Services
BA Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
MA Early Childhood Education, Roosevelt University
EdD Doctorate of Education honoris causa, Maharishi International University
Carolyn Gaylord King, PhD
Fairfield, Iowa
Senior Researcher, Maharishi International University Research Institute
Professor, Department of Physiology and Health, Maharishi International University
Conducted the first federally funded research projects involving the TM technique and is actively involved in research on the effects of TM on health
BA Sociology, Southern Arkansas University
MA, University of Michigan
PhD Psychology, University of Michigan
Toby Lieb, BFA
Fairfield, Iowa
Founding Member of the School Board of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment, Washington, DC
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
Kwesi Orgle, PhD
Marietta, Georgia
Accra, Ghana
Deputy Minister of Religion and Culture, Global Country of World Peace
Executive Director, Institute for Excellence in Africa
Board member of Global Projects for Peace and Maharishi Foundations of Ghana, Rwanda and Sierra Leone
Served as a director of the Forestry Commission of Ghana and worked with a variety of NGOs including the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Fearless Planet Inc. and the World Federation of Traditional Kings in Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Zambia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia
Former President of Ghana Association for the Conservation of Nature.
BSc (Hons) Botany with Zoology, University of Ghana
PhD Tropical Forest Ecology, University of Aberdeen, UK
Certificate in Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, International Agricultural Centre, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Postgraduate certificates: Strategic Environmental Assessment, Oxford Brookes University, UK and Modernizing Human Resource Management, Royal Institute of Public Administration, London, UK
Neil Patterson, PhD
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Minister of Administration, Global Country of World Peace
Teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique, advanced techniques, and the TM-Sidhi Program for over 40 years
Senior Administrator of the Global Transcendental Meditation Organization from 1982-2002
DSCI, Maharishi European Research University
PhD Maharishi Vedic Science, Maharishi Vedic University
Eric Schwartz, MA
Fairfield, Iowa
Founder and CEO, Cambridge Investment Research
Five-time winner of Investment Advisor magazine’s coveted “Broker Dealer of the Year” award (2003, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012)
Featured in the cover stories of numerous major industry publications
Member of the founding Board of Directors and past Chairman of the Financial Services Institute (FSI), a membership association dedicated to serving the interests of independent Broker/Dealers and financial advisers
BA Education, Amherst College
MA Exercise Science, University of Massachusetts
Jane Schmidt-Wilk, MBA, PhD
Fairfield, IA
Faculty Trustee
MIU Dean of Teaching and Learning
Professor of Management
BA, Oberlin College
MBA, Maharishi International University
PhD, Maharishi International University
Ram Shrivastava, MBA
New Delhi, India
Director of Marketing, Maharishi Ayurveda Products Pvt. Ltd. Strategist for Maharishi Ayurveda Programs in India and abroad
BBA Business Administration, Apeejay Institute of Management
MBA Sustainable Business, Maharishi International University
Keith Wallace, PhD, DWP
Fairfield, Iowa
Founding President, Maharishi International University
Professor of Physiology
Director of Research (International), Maharishi International University
Pioneer in the neurophysiology of higher states of consciousness whose groundbreaking research on the physiology of meditation opened the door for its scientific study and application in the field of behavioral medicine
BS Physics, University of California at Los Angeles
PhD Physiology, University of California at Los Angeles
Post Doctorate, Harvard Medical School
Doctorate of World Peace, Maharishi University of World Peace
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