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Dr Lee Fergusson is Director of the Master of Professional Studies program at University of Southern Queensland and the Yudhishthira Professor of Vedic Science, Education and Sustainability at Maharishi Vedic Research Institute. He is the author and editor of 13 books, including Redefining Sustainability (2019) and What a Waste: Studies in Anthropogenic Sources of Pollution (2016). His research on education, psychology, sustainability and the environment has been published in international journals, including Asian Journal of Chemistry, History of Education, Reflective Practice, Journal of Work-Applied Management, Perceptual and Motor Skills, Journal of Latinos and Education and Higher Education Research and Development.

Dr Anna Bonshek is the MahaGauri Professor of Vedic Science, Art and Vedic Architecture at Maharishi Vedic Research Institute and a consultant in Vedic Architecture at Maharishi Vāstu Alliance. Dr Bonshek is the author and editor of several books, including Living Peace: The Contribution of Maharishi Vedic Science to Global Security (2020), Mirror of Consciousness: Art, Creativity and Veda (2001), and The Big Fish: Consciousness as Structure, Body and Space (2007), and has published research in international journals, including International Journal of Architecture and Urban Design, Asia–Pacific Journal of Education, International Journal of Indian Psychology, New Art Examiner and Artlink.

Dr Sanford Nidich is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Social-Emotional Health and Consciousness at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. Over the past several decades, Dr Nidich has been a pioneering researcher on human potential, including investigating self-actualization, higher stages of moral and spiritual development, and social-emotional health. He has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on over $25 million in research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health and private foundations to study the effects of Transcendental Meditation on cardiovascular disease, quality of life in cancer patients, mental health and addiction.

Javier Ortiz Cabrejos is a Peruvian architect, urban planner, educator, poet and lecturer in human development, and a consultant in Vedic Architecture at Maharishi Vāstu Alliance. Ortiz Cabrejos has lectured at universities and institutions in over 30 countries and developed educational projects in colleges and universities in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota and Medellin, as well as in schools and universities in Peruvian cities such as Lima, Callao, Cusco, Trujillo, Arequipa, Huancayo, Iquitos and Puno. In the last 15 years, he implemented Latin American projects in Consciousness-Based Education at 60 schools to more than 50,000 students.

Dr Randi Nidich is co-director and senior researcher at the Centre for Social-Emotional Health and Consciousness at Maharishi University of Management. Her research projects have investigated the effects of Transcendental Meditation on social-emotional competencies, academic achievement and moral development in middle and high school students, teacher burnout and perceived stress, and trauma and other psychological distress factors in women prison inmates. Dr Nidich is currently an investigator on a women's prison project on trauma in Albania and a current high school academic and stress study funded by the Centre for Wellness and Achievement in Education.