Ronald E. Purser, Ph.D., is the Lam Larsen Distinguished Research Professor of Management at San Francisco State University and the internationally recognized author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, a book that sparked a global debate on the commodification of mindfulness meditation. His work has been featured in over a hundred major media outlets, including such TV shows On Contact with Chris Hedges, Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, as well as radio interviews on the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio New Zealand and local public stations. His essays and opinions have appeared international news media, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, The Nation, Salon, The Huffington Post, The Irish Times, Metro, The Standard, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as many magazines such as Fast Company, Vice, The New Statesman, The Saturday Eve­ning Post, Truthout.org, The Telegraph, Los Angeles Review of Books, Current Affairs, and Tricycle. Purser is also a fre­quent guest on popular podcasts such as The ZDoggMD Show, The Chauncey DeVega Show, The Wright Show, and Upstream.

A long-time student of the Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku’s visionary book Time, Space, and Knowledge (TSK), Purser has been studying and practicing the teachings from this seminal book for over forty years. Today he is an instructor at Dharma College in Berkeley, California, where he leads courses and seminars on Mind Space and TSK for contemporary audiences. He lives in Pacifica, California.