Aneel is Associate Executive Director of the Contemplative Sciences Center (csc.virginia.edu) at the University of Virginia. Before UVA, he spent twelve years at Stanford University where he was Director of the Division of Health and Human Performance and Founding Director of the Stanford Flourishing Project. Previously, he was also Chair of the Board of Trustees at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Chair of the Veterans, Immigrants, and Refugees Trauma Institute of Sacramento (now the Ulysses Project at the UC Davis School of Medicine). He is deeply interested in the interdisciplinary understanding and promotion of flourishing for all, both individually and collectively.