Dr. Narendra P. Jain has served as India’s ambassador to the UN, the European Union, Mexico, Nepal and Belgium, as well as India’s Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs. Dr. Jain was invited to participate at the Parliament of World Religions in 1993 in Chicago and in Cape Town in 1999 and was a distinguished representative of India at both the UN Spiritual Summit in New York in 2000, and the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. He is the author of several books on spirituality and Jain religion and philosophy.