Board of Directors
Founders
Adam Engle, JD, MBA
Mind & Life Institute
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Honorary Board Chair
Francisco J. Varela, PhD
Mind & Life Institute
Founding Stewards
Richard J. Davidson, PhD
William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder & Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founder and Chief Visionary for Healthy Minds Innovations, Inc.
Former Board Members (chronological order)
Adam Engle
Francisco Varela
Alan Wallace
Elaine Jackson
Richie Davidson
Daniel Goleman
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Anne Harrington
Paul Ekman
Matthieu Ricard
Arthur Zajonc
John Dunne
Roshi Joan Halifax
Ulco Visser
Bennet Shapiro
Don Morrison
Tania Singer
Diana Chapman Walsh
Mark Bertolini
Raymond ‘Rip’ Gellein
Barry Hershey
Connie Kemmerer
Carolyn Jacobs
Tenzin Chogyal (Ngari Rinpoche), Honorary
Past Presidents
Adam Engle, 1991-2011
Al Kaszniak (interim), 2011
Arthur Zajonc, 2012-2015
Carolyn Jacobs (interim), 2015
Susan Bauer-Wu, 2015-2023