Ex member of the British Parliament, in partnership with Professor Lord Richard Layard created the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group (MAPPG), a multi-party group dedicated to developing Mindfulness public policy in health, education, criminal justice and the workplace in the UK. United. It works with Mindfulness advocates in over 40 different countries who want to bring the techniques to their legislatures.

With more than 20 years of experience in management consulting, his professional trajectory has been marked by helping companies to engage their talents and achieve better results. Since 2016, he has served as General Manager of the Top Employers Institute for the Americas region, and his professional experience has been built up in companies such as Korn Ferry, Hay Group, Nielsen and Philips, in Brazil and abroad. He holds a degree in business administration from PUC/SP and an MBA in executive management from Insper.

Psychiatrist, he is a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zaragoza, where he is director of the Masters in Mindfulness. He also works at the Miguel Servet Hospital, which belongs to the Aragonese Health Service. He leads the Research Group “Mental Health in Primary Care”, which is part of the Research Network in Primary Care (REDIAP) of the Spanish Ministry of Health. He has written over 20 books and 25 books chapters and published over 300 research papers.

Senior Researcher at the Carlos III Health Institute (Teaching, Research and Innovation Unit of the Sant Joan de Déu Sanitary Park - Spain) and at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). He is also a senior researcher for the project ``My Resilience in Adolescence``. He holds a PhD in Psychiatry and a specialization in Clinical Psychology. It is also part of the Innovation Network ``New Technologies in Mental Health`` and the ``Center for Research and Transfer in Mental Health``.

One of the world's most recognized personalities in Mindfulness is a Doctor of Molecular Biology by the MIT, Professor Emeritus at the School of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts and founder of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare and Society. Creator of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, author of books on meditation, “Living the total catastrophe them”, among books known for their contribution in the areas of medicine, behavior and health.

Doctor graduated from USP, pioneer in the dissemination of Mindfulness in Brazil, founder of Centro Mente Aberta of UNIFESP, with a Post-Doctorate in Mindfulness and Health from the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), Professor, Researcher, and Vice-coordinator of the Collective of Masters and PhD in Health of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Paulista School of Medicine- UNIFESP.

Professor of the Administration course at Universidade de São Paulo, at the Ribeirão Preto campus. He teaches environmental sustainability and organizational Mindfulness. He researches Organizational Mindfulness, sustainability and management through dialogue.

Co-director of the Mindfulness Initiative, where she works with legislators around the world, helping to consolidate public policies related to Mindfulness. Ruth Ormston is also Chair of the UK Mindfulness in Law Group. Author and speaker on mindfulness in health, the workplace and education, she also contributed to the Mindfulness Initiative’s latest public policy report on Mindfulness, Compassion and the Climate Crisis “Reconnection: Meeting the Climate Crisis Inside Out”.