Based in Singapore, Alison is a recruitment specialist with more than 15 years of Human Resource management and Executive Recruiting experience. Alison received her B.A. degree in Economics and History from the National University of Singapore.

Anne Tardy is an author of children's books and has founded and ran a museum for children in Paris, "Le Musée en Herbe". She is the UK representative of the Karuna-Shechen Foundation. She translates Buddhist texts from Tibetan into French. She is also a trustee for the Loden Education Trust.

Erick, a Luxembourger, has been making private equity investments for 25 years and manages his own investment firm, Milestone Investisseurs. He has made more than 40 acquisitions across Europe in various industries, investing more than €600m in more than 20 companies. Erick sits on the board of several European companies. He received his MBA from Columbia Business School in New York (Award for Excellence) and is an executive coach and a mindfulness teacher.

Francois Valencony started his career within the North American division of Schneider Electric, focusing on M&A and strategic initiatives, then contributed to the set-up and international expansion of G-F-X, a software company based in London. François has been working for Institut Mérieux since 2003, contributing to several initiatives in support to diagnostic and biotech business areas, the set-up of Mérieux Développement and more recently the management of Mérieux Equity Partners, as investment platform within the healthcare and nutrition sectors. François graduated from HEC Paris and holds a Master Degree from CEMS-Köln University, Germany.

Kalman Kelemen visited Bhutan in 2018 first, in connection with his Buddhist studies. He became a volunteer of the Loden Foundation from that year, focusing on the Entrepreneurship Program. Kálmán began his career as a university lecturer at the Budapest University of Technology, then during his business career he managed the Hungarian subsidiaries of several major multinational companies as CFO and Managing Director in manufacturing, IT and consulting industries. He has significant experience in interim, change and crisis management, he is controlling and BI expert. He runs his own consulting company Spice Consulting Ltd

Margaret Gee was born and raised in rural Australia and spent 17 years of her life in her parent’s farm. After completing high school Margaret obtained a Cadetship in Journalism at the prestigious daily newspaper The Melbourne Age. Margaret is a keen advocate of animal welfare, and was delighted to be appointed Australia’s first Ambassador for the U.S based Snow Leopard Conservancy. Margaret and her husband Dr Brent Waters who is a volunteer child psychiatrist in Bhutan, have now visited Bhutan 11 times. They both share a deep affection for the people, culture, landscape and extraordinary flora and fauna in Bhutan, and expect this transformative journey in the beautiful Eastern Himalayas to be on-going.

Professor Tadashi Nishihira is a professor at the Graduate School of Education in Kyoto University Japan with more than 28 years of teaching experience at various universities in Japan. Noriko Nishihira has a certificate of junior course of practical theology and is currently overseeing the work of Loden Foundation- Japan. Professor Tadashi first visited Bhutan in 2009 and has been coming every year to Bhutan with this wife Noriko ever since. Aside from their busy life in Japan, they continue to promote the work of Loden Foundation in Japan.

An entrepreneur from France as decorator and interior design. He is a volounteer with Loden Foundation. He manages 2 companies and next to that, has spent 10 years in the French Young Manager Center to form and support entrepreneurs.

William Tacon has been visiting Bhutan for over 20 years and since retiring in 2012 has been volunteering with Loden Foundation, and in particular on the Entrepreneurship Programme. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and during his professional career of over 30 years, he worked with and advised companies, their directors and funders at all stages in the corporate life cycle from incorporation into maturity, sale or failure. He mentors several Loden entrepreneurs and has visited many to review their development. William also volunteers with a number of Civil Society Organisations in Bhutan in developing strategies and in their development.

Based in Budapest (Hungary), Zoltan Valcsicsak is founding president of the Hungary-Bhutan Friendship Society and the first international volunteer of the Loden Foundation. Before 2011, when he got ‘Bhutanised’ and interested in bodhisattva entrepreneurship, Zoltan had been employed by Renault, USAID and the Levi Strauss Foundation. Later, as advisor and trainer, he worked with Ashoka, Eurogroup for Animals, Avocats Sans Frontières, Thimphu TechPark, Tarayana and YDF. He is the author of the first book ever published in Hungarian about Bhutan (www.bhutankonyv.hu), and he guides tours in Bhutan.