Team Members

Diego holds a BA in Electrical Engineering and an MSc in System Engineering. He comes from a family that likes dismantling and remounting things, from portable FM radios to cloud computing. He has experience with railway systems, energy, banking and payment, investment portfolio robots, and analytics for smart cities.  He enjoys gardening as well as  experimenting with new tech.  He currently lives in Brazil.

Sonam is a civil servant in Bhutan, and most of her knowledge comes from her experience working with the Ministry of Finance. Along with serving on the Khyentse Foundation board of directors, she is also a board member for Jamyang Khyenpa, an organization under Bhutan’s Commission for Religious Organizations.

Maya is proud to be a third generation buddhist, and grew up between Colorado and India. She has a BA in art history and architectural studies from Middlebury College in Vermont. She’s honored to work at Khyentse Foundation and to be a part of such an incredible organization and team.

Frances has a BA in Language from the University of York and an MA in Archaeology (Buddhist Art of Dunhuang; Aspects of Buddhism; and Chinese Ceramics) from SOAS University of London. Her first editorial role was for New World Press in Beijing. She has since served as managing editor of the Buddhistdoor Global website and the Asian art magazine Orientations, both based in Hong Kong. She has also edited Chinese art exhibition catalogues for the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum, as well as for private collectors.

恰度康卓在德克薩斯州和康涅狄格州長大。她曾作為和平軍的一員在非洲塞拉利昂一所鄉村小學任教兩年。她也曾擔任劍橋諮詢公司的研究員，並在波士頓和紐約工作了七年。之後擔任包括《紐約客》、《哈潑斯》和《奧杜邦》在內的各種雜誌的事實核查員。她用作為自由撰稿人所掙來的錢買了一張去亞洲的機票，從此開始了她的佛教之旅。 1978年3月她在尼泊爾遇到了恰度祖古，並於18個月後與他在加利福尼亞結婚。在仁波切的僧團中，她曾擔任廚師、管家和活動組織者，後來也擔任蓮師出版社的執行編輯。恰度祖古1997年為她舉行儀式，任命她為喇嘛。她在世界各地旅行和教授破瓦法。自2002年恰度祖古圓寂後，她一直擔任南美恰度中心的靈性導師。她居住在巴西南部的康卓林。

Ivy在國際業務和組織發展方面擁有30多年的豐富經驗。她的專業背景包括曾擔任高科技、生物技術、戰略諮詢和財務諮詢等領域的人力資源副總裁。她曾在Genentech,、AIG、Madge Networks 和 Landor Associates 等全球性行業領導者的公司任職，並擔任副總裁職位。此外，她也擁有為營利性和非營利組織提供諮詢的豐富經驗。 Ivy是Visionlinc的創始人兼總裁，該公司致力於聯結組織的願景、戰略和人才。她是首席執行官及其團隊的戰略規劃師和執行教練，通過激發創新文化和優化人效實踐以實現組織使命。在與高管的合作中，Ivy專注於通過深入探尋、自我發現與體驗式實踐的方式，來幫助企業高管提升能力與信心。她深信人們與生俱來的潛力，以及通過革新行為產生非凡成果的可能性。她的教練重點是將高管的影響與領導力同業務願景和結果聯繫起來。她的專長包括戰略願景和規劃、領導和管理高績效團隊、以及將快樂和意義融入到我們的工作與生活中。她曾被《財富》雜誌和CNBC報導。她曾在包括世界事務理事會、身心覺知項目和論壇 21在內的多個董事會任職。

特倫特·沃克 (Trent Walker) 是美國密歇根大學東南亞研究助理教授和泰國上座部佛教教授。 在搬到安娜堡之前，他在曼谷朱拉隆功大學（由欽哲基金會贊助）和斯坦福大學何氏佛學研究中心完成了博士後研究。 他於 2018 年在加州大學伯克利分校獲得了佛教研究博士學位，專功東南亞佛教音樂、文學和手稿方面的研究，他的學術出版主要題材是柬埔寨、老撾、泰國和越南的佛教儀式、文學和思想史。

Sydney有著不同尋常地豐富的經歷。她的第一份職業是護士，隨後在英國文學專業攻讀碩士，其後不久又獲得了臨床社會工作者的學歷和認證。她在 55 歲時從加州大學柏克萊分校獲得社會工作博士學位，並在一家大型全球諮詢公司從事領導力培訓工作。這一角色使她能夠與她的丈夫克里斯一起開發一門領導力課程，專門培訓仁波切的僧侶、堪布和領袖以及一群年輕的西藏和不丹祖古的領導力。

雅婷出生於台灣，在加拿大溫哥華長大。自不列顛哥倫比亞大學商業系畢業後，在北京、台北、新加坡和馬來西亞從事過不同的工作。她目前在香港擔任健康教練，致力於幫助人們實現健康目標。

Born in a village in H.P. in 1955, Depak studied in Bishop Cotton School, Shimla, from 1964 to 1973. He graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in Sociology from Hindu College, University of Delhi, in 1977 and earned an LL.B. degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, in 1980. He continued in his litigation practice as well, serving an array of international clients, and became a private litigator in 2002. He has served as secretary to a number of Rinpoches, and acted in an advisory capacity for others. While continuing to assist with the formation of trust and associations for many Rinpoches, including Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche III, Kalu Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, and HH Sakya Trizin Rinpoche, he continues to address cases in the High Courts in Delhi and Shimla, H.P.