Mr Ian Green
- Chairman and Board Member of the Dalai Lama In Australia Limited March 2006 to present.
- Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion Ltd. 2003 to present.
- Board member of FPMT Inc a 501C non-profit organisation registered in the State of California, USA. January 2002 to July 2007.
- Board member of FPMT Australia Ltd 2003 until March 2006.
- Director of Atisha Centre Buddhist Centre 1981 to 1999.
- Board Committee Member and member of the Editorial Board of the Tibetan Museum Society (USA) 2006 to present.
- Ian is also a partner in a well-established marketing and advertising business called Challenges Accepted.
Dr Alan Molloy
Dr Alan Molloy is a medical practitioner working in Melbourne, Australia. He has studied Buddhism for over 30 years and lives with his wife and daughter in a Tibetan Buddhist centre in Melbourne - Tara Institute. Alan has worked on all the previous Tours of His Holiness to Australia. In both 2002 and 2007 he was the National Director for the Australian tours. He brings a wealth of experience in major event management to the Board but also has extensive contacts and liasons with the Buddhist groups around Australia.
Mr Tony Steel
Tony Steel is Centre Director for Vajrayana Institute Inc., a Buddhist meditation centre based in Sydney. He is also director of Liberation Prison Project Limited and is Chairman of Terrapinn Limited, a conference and events business which he established in 1987.
Ven Yeshe Khadro
Yeshe Khadro has worked in various roles within FPMT since the international organization was established.
She studied Buddhism at Kopan Monastery in Nepal and was ordained in 1974.
She was then Director of Chenrezig Institute, Australia 1976-81, Secretary at Wisdom Publications, Nepal and London 1982-83, Director of FPMT International Office, Nepal in 1984 where she also undertook further study and retreat until 1986.
She was then a Student of Buddhist Philosophy at Chenrezig Institute and Western teacher in various centers including Chenrezig Institute, Taiwan, Hong Kong from 1986-96. 1996 saw her take over the role of Director of Karuna Hospice Service, Australia.
Yeshe Khadro has been a Director on the DLIA Ltd Board since 2006.
Mr Stephen Benton
Steve was invited onto the Board of the Dalai Lama In Australia Limited in August 2007, having previously acted as Consultant to the organisation on the last Tour of His Holiness to Australia. He has held a special interest in Buddhism for over 30 years and undertaken more formal studies and training over the last 5 years. He holds a key interest in Buddhist “Spiritual Care”, working on a voluntary basis in the palliative care and cancer treatment areas.
He is the Managing Director of Australia & Asia’s oldest risk advisory practice and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Risk Management Institute of Australasia, the Institute of Public Administration along with a number of other industry related bodies.
Professor Bee Chen Goh
LLB (Hons) (Malaya); LLM (Cambridge); SJD (Bond)
Head, School of Law & Justice
Southern Cross University
The first woman Rhodes Scholar from Malaysia, Professor Bee Chen Goh joined the Board of Dalai Lama in Australia Limited in August 2007. She has a special interest in International Law of Peace, an academic subject she designed and developed looking at the concept of peace as a human consciousness movement in the development of contemporary International Law. She draws heavily upon Buddhist wisdom teachings, especially the Principle of Universal Responsibility as espoused by His Holiness The Dalai Lama XIV. She is spearheading the academic interface between Law and Buddhism at Southern Cross University.
Major publications: Negotiating with the Chinese (1996, Dartmouth) (Hardback); Law Without Lawyers, Justice Without Courts - On Traditional Chinese Mediation (Ashgate 2002) (Hardback)
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