The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a centre dedicated to inquiry, dialogue, and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life. The Centre is a collaborative and nonpartisan think tank, and its programs emphasize responsibility and examine meaningfulness and moral purpose between individuals, organizations, and societies. Six Nobel Peace Laureates serve as The Centre’s founding members and its programmes run in several countries and are expanding. Venerable Tenzin’s unusual background encompasses entering a Buddhist monastery at the age of 10 and receiving graduate education at Harvard University with degrees ranging from Philosophy to Physics to International Relations. He is a Tribeca Disruptive Fellow and a 2018 Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University. Venerable Tenzin serves on the boards of number of academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards, and received Harvard’s Distinguished Alumni Honours for his visionary contributions to humanity.

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