Akhandadhi Dasa teaches a retreat called Inner Truth. Born in Belfast and educated at the Royal Belfast Academic Institution and Bristol University, he joined ISKCON at Bhaktivedanta Manor in 1975 and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada that year. He was involved in Life Membership and the development of the Indian community until 1982. He was the temple president of the Manor from 1982 to 1995 and led a successful campaign to save Bhaktivedanta Manor from being closed by neighboring villagers. He helped coordinate the Sri Mayapur Project development office in the UK from 1994 to 1998. He manages Buckland Hall, a retreat center in Wales. He has been a writer and broadcaster on Vaishnavism and Hindu theology for the BBC and UK newspapers.

Jaya Bhadra Dasi was born in Canada in 1953 and joined ISKCON in 1973. She performed book distribution until 1985, when she moved to Radhadesh, where she took charge of the kitchen and did Deity worship. In 2002, the year that the College opened, she enrolled, and she is completing the Bachelor of Theology degree program and teaching a course on the Srimad-Bhagavatam.

Kadamba Kanana Swami teaches Reflections on Caitanya-caritamrta. He joined ISKCON in 1978 in Amsterdam. Until 1984 he managed projects in Vrindavana. From 1985 through 1990 he coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur. Then, for three years, he was the temple president in Vrindavana and later spent two years preaching in Europe. He took sannyasa in 1997 and is now an initiating guru.

Lilasuka Dasa  was born in Brussels in 1960. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Accountancy and Tax Counseling in 1981. He took up a career in administrative software development and administra-tive organization. In 1982 he began to read Srila Prabhupada's books. In the early nineties he was active in the Nama Hatta preaching center in Flanders. In 1998 he became an initiated brahmacari disciple of Bhakti Charu Swami. He was asked to accept the responsibility of European Secretary, in 1998, and Secretary of the GBC Body and Executive Committee, in 2002. He also accepted the responsibility for legal and tax matters of the Radhadesh projects and is the legal administrator of Bhaktivedanta College. Since 1998, he has traveled extensively in Europe to teach the Srimad Bhagavatam, and he also teaches Bhakti Sastri and Srimad Bhagavatam classes at Bhaktivedanta College. He passed the Bhakti Sastri in 2001 and later completed Bhaktivaibhava studies in Vrindavana. In October 2004 he accepted the responsibility for a new preaching center in Brussels.

Prahladananda Swami was born in 1949, in Buffallo, New York. He studied at the University of Buffalo, where he received a full scholarship. In January 1969 he joined ISKCON and rceived both initiations that year from Srila Prabhupada. He helped open temples and distributed Srila Prabhpada's books and preached in universities. He also served as the president of several temples in Texas. In 1975 he joined the Radha-Damodara bus tour and travelled throughout the United States distributing books. In 1982, he entered the renunced order of life. In 1989 he became a member the Vaisnava Institute for Higher Education, in Vrndavana. In 1990 he was appointed to head the GBC committee of Health and Welfare. In 1991, the GBC made him the head of a ministry for members of  the renounced order of life. He is dedicated to traveling and preaching. He is an initiating spiritual master.

Purnacandra Goswami, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, joined ISKCON in New York in 1976. He then traveled throughout America on the Radha-Damodara bus. In 1981 he assisted ISKCON’s mission in Hong Kong, and in 1984, the Philippines. He then went to India and preached at universities in Gujarat. In England, from 1987-97, he held classes and tutorials on the Bhagavad-gita and weekly Bhakti-sastri seminars at Bhaktivedanta Manor and the London temple. He began teaching these in other countries (Ireland, the Philippines, France, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia, and Russia), and in 1997 he moved to Russia and continues to teach there, in India, and in Eastern Europe. He is the initiator and chairman of the Sastric Advisory Council (SAC) of the GBC. He has narrated an audio production called “Gitamrta,” and written a book entitled Unspoken Obstacles on the Path of Devotion. 

Yadunandana Swami is the Principal of Bhaktivedanta College. He teaches the Bhakti Vaibhava Course (on Srimad-Bhagavatam) and various vocational and academic courses. He comes from Spain and is Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami's disciple. He joined ISKCON at fourteen and has always been a brahmacari. He has performed leadership and preaching services for more than twenty years. His educational services include training devotees and giving seminars and conferences in more than twenty universities.

Anupama Dasi teaches World Religions. She joined ISKCON in Croatia in 1995, where she did congregational preaching and Deity service. She holds a B.A. in philosophy and religion from the Jesuit College at the University of Zagreb, and she taught philosophy and religion at a high school. In 2003 she completed the Bhakti Sastri course at VIHE. She is finishing a Master’s thesis in comparative religion from the University of Zagreb and received a Bachelor’s degree in theology from Bhaktivedanta College.

Anuradha Dasi became a devotee in 1990 and has since been involved in educational projects in ISKCON. She did the curriculum development for Bhaktivedanta College and also taught there. She lives in Oxford and is one of the Tutors in the Continuing Education Programme at the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies.
 

Dvija Mani Dasa (David Buchta), a disciple of Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, teaches Sanskrit and a course on Vaisnava Acaryas. He is a doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, studying the Vaisnava poetics of Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana. He holds a BA in Religion from Emory University and an MA in Sanskrit from Uppsala University. He has published papers on the life and writings of Baladeva Vidyabhusana. He lives at the ISKCON temple in Philadelphia with his wife Omkara Dasi and daughters Sarasvati and Gayatri.

Hanumatpreshaka Swami is General Secretary of the North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, and a visiting professor at the Institute for Oriental and Occidental Classical Studies, Ricardo Palma University, Lima, Peru. He is a scholar who is continuously traveling and lecturing on classical Indian literature. He graduated from the University of California in 1970 with a first-place prize in psychology and minor studies in biology and electrical engineering. He was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1974, received sannyasa in 1984, and began accepting disciples in 1994. He teaches Bhaktirasamrita-sindhu.

Gopinatha Acarya Dasa teaches An Introduction to Hinduism, Vedas and Upanisads, and An Introduction to Kavya. He was born in Brussels in 1981 and joined ISKCON in 1999 in Penang, Malaysia. In 2001 he received an undergraduate degree in Oriental Studies from the University of Ghent, specialising in Sanskrit, and two years later earned his master’s degree from the same department. His thesis consisted of a translation and study of Rupa Gosvami’s Hamsa-duta. He has served the Dutch branch of the BBT as a Sanskrit editor, translator and proofreader since 2000. He is finishing a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford on Kavikarnapura’s poetry and poetics, and he teaches courses on Hinduism and Sanskrit at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

Janakirama Dasa joined ISKCON in Los Angeles in 1995. He is completing a Ph.D. in Science and Religion at Oxford University, with a focus on the Bhagavata Purana's relationship to contemporary biological science. He has published articles in journals, including the "Journal of Vaishnava Studies" and "Biology & Philosophy". Along with his wife and other devotees, he co-supervises the ISKCON Academy of Arts & Sciences, which brings together devotees in academia.
 

Gopal Hari Dasa teaches Readings in Vaisnava Acharyas and Science and Religion at the Bhaktivedanta College. He is a disciple of H. H. Gopal Krishna Goswami. Gopal Hari completed a Masters in Science and Religion and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Hindu Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. His research interests include conceptions of consciousness, nature and divine agency in classical and contemporary Indian thought. Before coming to the UK, Gopal Hari completed a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Boise State University in Idaho, USA, where his parents run the ISKCON Boise temple. Gopal Hari is a regular speaker at interfaith events and university classes, and has been a contributor to radio and television channels on topics of religion, ethics, and science and religion. 

Kartamasa teaches Sociology and History of ISKCON. He earned a B.Sc. degree in Human Resource Development at the University of Florida. He taught elementary school for two years before pursuing a Master’s degree and now is teaching on that level again. He lives in Alachua and is writing his thesis on community development at the Hare Krishna community in Saranagati, British Columbia. He organizes programs for youth and coordinates community programs. His parents are disciples of Srila Prabhupada.

Krishna Kshetra Dasa teaches Sri Caitanya-caritamrta and Readings in the Vaishnava Acarayas. He was born in New York in 1950 and interrupted his undergraduate studies in architecture, after becoming initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1972, to serve as an ISKCON missionary in Germany, Holland, Denmark, and the East European countries. He has acted as a full-time pujari, or servant of the Deities, at Nrsimha-Kshetra, Germany, and now oversees that worship. He compiled Pancaratra-pradipa (1995), ISKCON’s Deity-worship manual, and directed the ISKCON Deity Worship Ministry until 2006. He is a brahmacari and an initiating guru. He has a B.A. from the University of California, a M.A. from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, all in Religious Studies. His doctoral thesis, on Caitanya Vaishnava Deity worship, written at the University of Oxford, in the faculties of Theology and the Oriental Institute, in conjunction with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, has been published under the title Attending Krishna's Image.

Kumaripriya Dasi teaches Epics: Mahabharata and Ramayana. She met devotees in Washington, D.C. in 2001 and enrolled as a student during the first year of Bhaktivedanta College, 2002-03. She went on to read a Bachelor's degree in Theology at Oxford University, where she finished with a first in 2007. She is now pursuing a Master's at Cambridge University in the study of Hinduism and Comparative Theology.

Mahendra Dasa teaches Classical and Medieval Philosophy. He is also an administrator of Bhaktivedanta College. He began practicing Krishna consciousness in 1989 in Bulgaria and served as the ISKCON temple president in Sofia in the mid-1990s. He was the headmaster of the former children's school in Radhadesh for two years. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy (Sofia University) and a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Information Systems and Management (University of London, London School of Economics). He is a part-time graduate student in management at De Montfort University in Leicester.

Pranava Dasa teaches Sat Darshanas and has taught Science and Religion. He joined ISKCON in Vrindavan in 1983. After ten years of book distribution in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, he served as the congregational director (1993 to 1996) and the temple president of ISKCON Gothenburg in Sweden (1996 to 1999). He started his academic career in 2000. He completed an M.A. in the History of Religion and Indology at the University of Gothenburg. He and his wife live in Gothenburg.

Radhika Ramana Dasa teaches Sanskrit for Scriptural Study. He is a disciple of Hanumatpresaka Swami. His doctorate in Vaishnava theology at the University of Oxford focused on the philosophical works of Jiva Gosvami. It has been published under the title The Caitanya Vaishnava Vedanta of Jiva Goswami. He has studied Sanskrit for most of the past decade, first under the tutelage of Gary Thomas in the U.S., and then under Dr. James Benson and Prof. M. Narasimhachary at Oxford. Radhika Ramana received his undergraduate education (in philosophy and applied mathematics) at Boise State University in Idaho, where his parents run the ISKCON temple in Boise. He was a columnist for Back to Godhead magazine in his teens.

Sesa Dasa teaches Ethics. He joined ISKCON in 1973, inspired by the political activism of the In God We Trust Party for Purified Leaders, organized by members of ISKCON. He is a member of the Governing Body Commission and head of the Ministry of Educational Development. He served as the temple president of both Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia; as the Managing Editor of Back to Godhead magazine; and as the North American Secretary of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. He attended the United States Military Academy and later received a degree in Political Science from the State University of New York, Albany. In 1991 he earned a Juris Doctor degree from the UCLA School of Law. He lives in Alachua, Florida, with his wife and two daughters.

Sudevi Dasi teaches Vaisnava Vedanta. She met the devotees in 2001 during her Indology and Theology studies in Berlin. After completing the Bhakti Sastri course in Vrndavan (2003), she entered Bhaktivedanta College, where she received a BA in Theology in 2007. She has also been teaching Bhakti Shastri courses at Radhadesh (2006 and 2007).

Urmila Dasi teaches History of ISKCON and ISKCON and Society. She has a Masters of School Administration and a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Urmila was the first one in her department to go from having only a bachelor's degree to earning a masters and a doctorate simultaneously. She has served within ISKCON continuously since 1973. She is currently ISKCON's first and only female guru candidate. Her husband, three children and seven grandchildren are all active in Krishna consciousness. She has been on national television, including NBC, explaining various aspects of the Hare Krishna Movement and Krishna conscious philosophy. Dr. Best is also a member of ISKCON's Shastric Advisory Council to the Governing Body Commission, which administers the hundreds of Hare Krishna temples worldwide.

Anuttama Dasa sometimes teaches two courses: Communication, and Leadership and Management. He is the International Director of ISKCON Communi-cations and a member of the GBC, the governing body of ISKCON. He is also a Trustee of Bhaktivedanta College. As a former President of ISKCON Colorado and a founding Board Member of Children of Krishna, Anuttama brings both practical insights and personal experience to his teaching. In the United States, he is the Vice President of the national Religion Communicators Council (RCC) and a Board Member of the National Conference on Community and Justice (NCCJ), Capital Region, and The Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. He lives with his wife, Rukmini, another College trustee, in Washington, D.C.

Braja Bihari dasa  is the past Director of ISKCON Resolve, ISKCON’s conflict-management system. He earned his Master’s degree in Conflict Transformation and Organizational Leadership from Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia. He is a trained mediator and ombudsman and has mediated dozens of conflicts and met hundreds of visitors in his ombud’s office. He is the past director of the Vrindavan Institute of Higher Education (VIHE). He joined ISKCON in 1977.

Hanuman Dasa teaches the Leadership and Manage-ment course and the Interfaith course. He is from Spain and joined ISKCON in 1980. His services include the Spanish BBT, Communications (Interfaith, Education), and VTE (teaching the Communications course in Argentina, Spain, and India). He has a Ph.D. in Quantum Chemistry from the University of Barcelona.

Kripamoya Dasa teaches Congregational Develop-ment, a field he supervises for the south U.K. He joined ISKCON in 1974 and spent eight years on book distribution; three years in fund-raising; and twelve years as ISKCON’s correspondence secretary and as the pioneer of the Friends of Lord Krishna program. At Bhaktivedanta Manor he supervises preachers caring for more than twenty congregational groups. He and his wife have been married for twenty years and have three children.

Krishna-lila Dasi has sometimes teaches the Counseling course. She holds a M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. She is the Central Coordinator for Professional Staff Development at the New York City Board of Education. She serves as the Senior Trainer and the Crisis Intervention Specialist for counseling professionals. She has worked as a school counselor since 1971. Since 1992, she has been training school counselors in New York City Public Schools in mediation, crisis response, character education, group counseling, and conflict resolution. Now she is also an adjunct professor at New York University and East Stroudsburg University and conduct workshops for UNESCO, UNICEF, Living Values International and various colleges and high schools.

Laksmimani Dasi was initiated by Srila Prabhuada in 1969 while attending the State University of New York at Buffalo. She received a B.A. in psychology after getting an "A" for her senior sociology project: "Life in a Krishna Temple." She has been involved in ISKCON educational projects since 1974. Now she is a member of the GBC Ministry of Educational Development and a GBC Deputy. She was the principal of the Vaishnava Academy for Girls, in the USA, for 29 years. She has given seminars on the practice of Krishna consciousness and on media awareness and has traveled to ISKCON schools to teach primary and secondary teachers. Recently, she has traveled in Europe and India, where she taught teacher-training courses and a Bhakti Sastri seminar.

Merudevi Dasi teaches the Introduction to Mediation. She has served as the director of ISKCON Communications Europe and as an ombudsperson and mediator with ISKCON Resolve. She joined ISKCON in 1983 in Stockholm, Sweden, and is currently studying for a M.A. in Religion, Politics and International Relations. She lives in Oxford.

Rasamandala Dasa has facilitated two courses on Teacher Training. He joined ISKCON in 1973 at Bhaktivedanta Manor. He is now the director of ISKCON Educational Services and is serving the VTE (Vaishnava Training and Education) in the fields of teacher training and curriculum development. He is a great believer in aims-driven and principle-based education. He lives in Oxford with his wife.

Shaunaka Rishi Dasa is the Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), founded in 1998 and officially recognized as an independent center of Oxford University in 2006. Shaunaka is committed to interreligious and theological dialogue and is an executive member of the Northern Ireland Interfaith Forum, in Belfast. He is also a broadcaster and lecturer. Shaunaka has been a member of ISKCON since 1979. He is an executive member of ISKCON’s Communications and Education Ministries and was the editor of ISKCON Communications Journal, a scholarly journal of dialogue and discussion. He lives in Oxford with his wife.

Smita Krishna Swami was born in Sweden in 1952. At 18, he dropped out of college to join ISKCON. In 1971 he received first and second initiation from Srila Prabhupada and sannyasa in 1986. He started to initiate disciples in 1988. He helped pioneer ISKCON's preaching in Sweden in 1973 and helped open up the preaching in Finland in the early 1980s. He has been interested in pastoral care since the late 1980s. Having studied systemic work in organizations under Jan Jacop Stam, he is using that knowledge as a consultant for various projects. He has his headquarters at Almviks Gard, Sweden.