Dr Lee Fergusson is Director of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, and Chief Executive Officer of Prana World Consulting, a company specialising in environmental remediation and industrial sustainability. Dr Fergusson has worked as a lecturer and assistant professor at Bendigo College of Advanced Education (now La Trobe University), Queensland College of Art (now Griffith University), and Maharishi University of Management in USA. He was founding Director of Maharishi Vedic College, Melbourne, and founding Rector of Maharishi Vedic University in Cambodia.Dr Fergusson was formerly Chief Executive Officer of Virotec International plc, a publicly listed London Stock Exchange company specialising in environmental remediation, President and Director of Global Online India, a NASDAQ-listed company, and President of USA Global Link, Inc., both internet and telecommunications companies based in USA.He is the author of several books, including: Red Mud Futures: Repurposing One of the World's Largest Industrial Waste By-products (Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2015); The Unmanifest Canvas: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Arts, Creativity and Perception (Maharishi University of Management Press, USA, 2015); Maharishi Vedic University in Cambodia: Educational Reconstruction and Social Renewal (Prana World Publishing, Australia, 2013); Virotec: A Ten-Year Story of Success in Environmental Remediation, originally commissioned by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) as part of the Australian Government's commitment to the "Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate", and ViroMine Technology: A Solution to the World's Mining Megawaste (both published by Prana World Publishing, Australia, 2010 and 2012 respectively). Two books are forthcoming in 2016: What a Waste: Studies in Anthropogenic Sources of Pollution (Germany); and Virotec at 16: Innovation and Research in Environmental Science (Australia).His articles and research papers have been published in many peer-reviewed international journals, including: American Journal of Environmental Protection; Asian Journal of Chemistry; History of Education; Higher Education Research and Development; Indian Journal of Education; International Journal of Environmental Research; Journal of Applied Research in Water and Wastewater; Journal of Environmental Quality; Light Metals; Perceptual and Motor Skills; Remediation Australasia, and Waste Management and Environment.
