Board of directors

	1. José G. Albarrán Graduate in firefighting and a graphic designer; activist and coordinator in the International Humanist Movement, has been Coordinator of Projects and Public Relations of the Community for Human Development. He is active member of Proutist Universal since 2001 and has served as President of the Board of Directors of the Prout Research Institute from 2007 until 2011. In 2007 he received a full scholarship for one month of training by the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation in Spain.
	2. Mario Mota Electronics engineer, graduate of the Simón Bolívar University, social activist, active member of Proutist Universal and AMURT in Guatire, State of Miranda since 2001. Served with AMURT disaster relief team in Haiti after the earthquake in 2009.
	3. Leopoldo Cook An electronics engineer (USB 1976) with a master’s degree from the University of Texas (1995), he has been linked to PROUT since 2003. He is a Marxist, socialist, Christian, Bolivarian and Proutist, without finding fundamental contradictions in those terms. Since 1973 he has been involved in social struggles in Venezuela to promote socialism and the Bolivarian process. An author and a columnist, he became a formal member of the PRIV Board of Directors in July 2010. He hopes to promote interaction between Prout and the Bolivarian Revolution, proposing that the fundamental principles of PROUT and Neohumanism be incorporated in the socialism of the 21st Century. For example, spirituality, ethics, the progressive adjustment of human rights, the rational utilization of resources, environmental balance, self-reliance and economic democracy should be considered as fundamental elements of the Venezuelan revolution. At the same time, he hopes to spread among Proutists the foundations of socialism in the XXI century as compatible and part of the “progressive socialism” proposed by PROUT. Among his priorities is promoting PROUT groups across the country. His email is leopoldocook[at]gmail.com, Facebook: Leopoldo Cook, telephone 0414-282.9683.
	4. Dada Atmapranananda Originally from the Philippines, graduated from the Don Mariano Memorial State University in Military Science. He had six years trained intensive military training in Search and Rescue (specializing in mountain and jungle). In 1986 he trained as a yogi monk, and organized social service projects and adventure sports camps for youth in Sri Lanka, Argentina, Peru and Brazil. Since 1999 he worked intensively in Venezuela at the Centro Madre Community Center in San Jose de Barlovento, studying cooperatives and organizing agricultural, educational and cultural programs.
	5. Carlos Drachenberg A facilitator and group leader since 1990 as an activist on issues of self-knowledge for social development, he has been speaker in topics of personal development, a member of the Humanist Movement and the International Community for Human Development in Venezuela. For 17 years, his research has mainly focused on tolerance and self-knowledge as a way of life. He is the author, along with Neyla Garcia, of “The Oracle of the Inner Guide, a practice to discover the sacred that dwells within and outside of you.” Author of “A Practical Guide for the meeting with the Beings of Light”, an everyday approach that each person can have with these life patterns that are characteristic of the species that have been with us since the dawn of humanity. For seven years he has dedicated himself to the study and practice of energy disciplines as a means of preventive health and healing issues based on the “secret language of body.” His vision: A being spiritually healthy, healthy in body and mind. It definitely influences interpersonal and social life.
	6. Hendrika Renkers A nun of yoga and meditation. Before coming to Venezuela in 1999, she ran service projects in Thailand, Nicaragua and Argentina for 20 years. Founder and director of the Centro Madre de Barlovento since 2000.
	7. Miguel A. Salas
	8. Dada Maheshvarananda, director Activist, writer, and monk. For 33 years he has taught meditation and yoga and supervised social service projects, first in Southeast Asia and then in South America. His book, After Capitalism: Prout’s Vision for a New World, has been published in 10 languages. He has given hundreds of seminars and workshops around the world about social issues and spiritual values. He founded the Prout Research Institute in 2007. His blog is: www.aftercapitalism.org.