Ms. Suzanne Morgan is the Parliament of the World’s Religions Sacred Space Ambassador. Ms. Morgan is the Founder and Director Emeritus of Sacred Space International (SSI). SSI was founded in Chicago in 2002 to encourage interfaith dialogue and cultural diversity by sharing sacred spaces.
She has held architectural licenses in five states in the US. She has worked at many prominent firms in the Chicago area including SOM and Loebl, Schlossman, Hackl and has been a sole practitioner providing interior and architectural services for clients. She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Email: suzanne.morgan312@gmail.com

Dennis Heaton is Professor of Management and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Management at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, USA. He received his Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Boston University. His prior positions at MUM include Dean of Distance Education and International Programs and Chair of the Business Faculty. His publications cover higher stages of human development, spirituality in management, management education, and sustainable development.

Smita Shah founded and has led SPAAN Tech, Inc. since its inception in 1998. A licensed, Professional Engineer in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and multiple other states, she is also a LEED AP, accredited by the U.S. Green Building Council. Ms. Shah serves as the Chairman of the Delhi-Chicago Sister Cities Committee, and has led a trade mission to India with Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley to promote economic, cultural and social exchanges between the cities. She serves in leadership roles in several Indian American community organizations, both in Chicago and nationally. In recognition of her work on behalf of the Indian-American community, she received the 2007 Ellis Island Medal of honor – an award sponsored by the National Ethnic Coalition Organization, honoring those “who changed the fabric of America.”

Dr. Suresh S. Kalagnanam is an Associate Professor at the Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. He has degrees in Engineering and Business , which he has received from India, Canada and the USA. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience, published papers in national and international journals, and spoken at many conferences.

Saroja Gullapalli is an Engineer and a senior corporate professional from Oil and Gas sector in Australia.

She received Victorian Multicultural Award for Excellence in 2011 from the Government of Australia, in recognition of her “Meritorious Service to the Community”.She was invited as a guest speaker to the “First World Parliament of Spirituality” in 2012. She was invited to ISOL 2015 conference held in Chicago, as one of the panel members on “Women Leadership and Economic Development”.

She is the author of the book “The Red Rose”–Spiritual journey of a working mother.She has been running “Self –Empowerment” workshops for many years in Australia and abroad as part of her community work. She is a big believer and promoter of living a complete and balanced life through self-empowerment.

She is the London correspondent for The Sunday Guardian-India and a documentary maker.

Swami Jitatmananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna order. He is Vice President of Sree Sree Ramakrishna Satyananda Aalam Bazar Math. Alam Bazar Math was established by Swami Vivekananda, where the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna did tapasya during 1892 to 1898. It is to this Alambazar Math that Swami Vivekananda entered on the very evening he came back to Calcutta after his western conquest, and he lived here, with occasional gaps from 19 February 1897 to February 1898. He was the editor of Prabaddha Bharat (1987-1989), the monthly English journal started by Swami Vivekananda in 1896. On invitation, he visited Singapore Malaysia (1994), and again Hong Kong, Australia, Fiji and New Zealand (1995) where he spoke in some forty institutions on Vedanta, Modern Management and Modern Science. In 1998 the Swami went on invitation from the Government of Sri Lanka. In 1999 the Swami was chosen as the chief representative of the Government of India for International Millennium Celebration organized by Chicago Mayor at Chicago. Thereafter he lectured in New York, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Berkeley, Sacramento, Portland, Hollywood and other cities. In August 2000 he was invited by the United Nation for the Millennium world, where he spoke on the Neo-Hinduism of Sri Ramakrishna in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, New York. In 2004 he was invited to address the scientists` conference in the Paris UNESCO headquarters.

H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji (Pujya Swamiji) is a world renowned spiritual leader. He is the President of Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, one of India’s largest interfaith spiritual institutions, co-founder/co-chairman of Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, an alliance of interfaith leaders for water, sanitation and hygiene. He also founded Ganga Action Parivar, leading the massive Clean Ganges Movement, Divine Shakti Foundation, dedicated to upliftment of women and children, and India Heritage Research Foundation, which compiled and published the historic 11-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism. He has spoken at the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum and many other prestigious forums.

Muni Mahendra Kumar is a versatile scholar of diverse disciplines like Physics, Mathematics, Bio-science, Philosophy (Indian as well as Western), Psychology, Parapsychology, Ancient History and Meditation, besides being conversant with the modern languages including English, German, Hindi, Gujarati, Rajasthani and ancient languages including Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pali. Born in 1937, at Bombay, he graduated from the University of Bombay in 1957 & was initiated as a Jain monk by Acharya Shri Tulsi in 1957. He has travelled over 10000 miles on foot in several states of India and has remained a close associate of Acharya Shri Tulsi and Acharya Shri Mahaprajna making a significant contribution to researchers in Jain Canonical Literature. He is a prolific writer, a competent translator and a critical editor of more than sixty books. He has been awarded the honor of epithets—”Agama Manishi” and “Preksha Pradhyapaka”. He is a “Shatavadhani” – His demonstration of Avadhan Vidya (ancient science of memory and mathematics) at various universities and International Conferences has earned him an epithet of “Human Computer”. He is the Honorary Professor at the Jain Vishva Bharati University and under his guidance several students have completed their research thesis for Ph D.

Acharya Balkrishna is a companion of yoga guru Baba Ramdev and a practitioner of Ayurveda, often referred to as Acharya Balkrishna. He is also the managing director of Patanjali Ayurved and the General Secretary of Patanjali Yogpeeth. He has undertaken a project of developing the Ayurvedic system of medicine