Arun Ghandi
Arun Ghandi, born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. He spreads his message of non-violence through speaking engagements, social programs, and as a long time journalist and accomplished author. In 1991 he and his wife Sunanda founded the MK Institute for non-violence. Together they have started projects for the social and economic betterment of oppressed people using constructive programs, the backbone of Ghandi’s philosophy of non-violence.

Azim N. Khamisa
Azim N. Khamisa is Chairman, CEO and Founder of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF) and Sovereign Capital Markets,Inc., as well as an award-winning author. He is a successful international investment banker, advisor and consultant with over 30 years of experience. Mr. Khamisa is a recipient of over 50 regional, national and international awards. He has committed his life to defeating the continuing cycle of violence amongst the youth.

Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar discovered his spiritual side very early on in life. He became a Jain monk at the age of nine. Influenced by the life of Mahatma Gandhi at eighteen years old, Kumar began a campaign to reform India. In 1962, the jailing of Bertrand Russell for protest against the nuclear bomb inspired Kumar to embark on an 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage from India to America. He moved to England in 1973 and was offered the editorship position for Resurgence (a magazine that focuses on ecological and spiritual thinking). He then founded the Small School and co-founded Schumacher College. Both of these schools focus on ecology and spirituality. Currently, he is the Program Director of the college. Kumar has been awarded three honorary degrees.

Neil Kripalani
Neil Kripalani is Of Counsel to Fitzgerald, Abbot and Beardsley and a member of its Business and Transactions Practice Group. Before joining the firm, he was General Manager of MemoryX, a Santa Clara, California-based memory chip distributor and manufacturer. He has held positions of CFO for venture backed enterprise software companies and large manufacturing organizations. Mr. Kripalani has also had significant experience in corporate financial valuations, business consulting and merger and acquisition transactions.

Dr. Chani Pangali, PhD
Dr. Chani Pangali, PhD holds a (BA) from Oxford University (1975), an MS (1976) and Ph.D. (1978) in Theoretical Chemistry from Columbia University where he was a George B. Pegram Distinguished Fellow. He was also a lecturer and Research Fellow at Harvard University (1979-80). Dr Pangali was born in Nairobi, Kenya. He is currently President of TDP Global Inc. Chani was most recently (2000-03) Senior Vice-President responsible for Product Innovation at KnowledgePool Inc., a subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd., working on eLearning solutions. Prior to that he served as CEO of WorkLife Solutions, Inc. He founded IntelliMatch Inc in 1994, a leading web-based career development company funded by Knight Ridder Corp. While at KnowledgePool, he worked with Dr Deepak Chopra’s team on developing a course in spirituality for the workplace. Dr Pangali has held positions as Vice-President of Marketing of publicly traded companies in the US, as CEO, and as head of Software Development divisions of major corporations. He is involved with several non-profits in the US and around the world. In the US, he is active in sponsoring the Chair in Punjabi Studies at UC Berkeley, and he also sponsors an annual tour to the US of the Australian group, Dya Singh New Age Music. His passionate interests are in helping the impoverished through education and lessons in spirituality.

Godfrey Reggio
Godfrey Reggio is a socially conscious filmmaker noted for making non-narrative filled with sharply fragmented, surreal imagery. He is quite fond of using slow and stop-motion photography. Reggio frequently has his works scored by avant-garde composer Philip Glass. His non-narrative feature films, "Koyaanisqatsi" (1982), which examined life in North America, and "Powaqqatsi" (1988), which examined the native cultures of Africa, the Middle East, India and South America, continued to explore such issues, though they are primarily seen as hallucinatory visual feasts, making liberal use of slow-motion and stop-motion techniques and set to the hypnotic music of Philip Glass . He lent the same craft to his short films, "Anima Mundi" (1991) and "Evidence" (1994) and "Naqoyqqatsi" (2002) the third in his "Qatsi" trilogy, which examined the effects of technology on the world. Before becoming a director, Reggio, who was educated at the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was a Roman Catholic monk. His involvement with radical politics led to his being asked to leave his order in 1968.

Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg
Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg is founder and director of educational services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication(R), an international, non-profit organization. Dr. Rosenberg provides Nonviolent Communication training in Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Malaysia, India, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Austria, France, and Canada, as well as in the United States. He works with such groups as educators, managers, mental health and health care providers, lawyers, military officers, prisoners, police and prison officials, clergy, government officials, and individual families. He is also active in war-torn areas and economically disadvantaged countries, offering Nonviolent Communication training to promote reconciliation and peaceful resolution of differences. Israel, Palestine, Ireland, Russia, Rwanda, Burundi, Nigeria, Serbia, and Croatia are examples of countries where Nonviolent Communication is being utilized by teams of peace activists.