Borna Bebek

Borna Bebek grew up in Britain where he attended Blackfriars

of Oxford boarding school.

He moved to USA where he studied physics and philosophy

at Williams College, and he wrote a masters at Thunderbird

Business School. He begun a PhD thesis on the Phidian code

– Plato in Heidelberg – Hans Georg Gadammer – Martin

Heideger, he moved on to Oxford and completed the thesis at

the LSE.

He moved on to India where he studied Kriya Yoga for two

years with Hariharananda. After India, he circumnavigated

the world in a sail boat. He wrote two best-selling books on

the subject: Santhana, One Man’s Journey to the East – The

Bodley Head and The City of Glass – Abraxis Publishing. His

third book: The Third City – Routledge and Keegan Paul is a

text book taught at several top universities – Harvard,

Princeton, Yale etc.

In the late eighties, Bebek befriended Rowan Williams and

lived with him at Christ Church College Oxford where he was

a member of the High Table.

In the nineties, he joined the MPRI – Military Professional

Resources INC – a group consisting of former US military

experts led by the chief of staff, General Carl Vouno. They

helped Croatia break away from the communist block and

assisted the precipitation of the former Warsaw Pact. Bebek

was a major in the Croatian army-intelligence advisor to the

president and a presidential candidate.

Military and political carrier apart, Bebek also has an equally

significant internationally relevant academic background. He

taught at world’s leading universities, is a Fulbright scholar

and the head of Academia Regia: an academy set up in 1776

by Austrian empress Maria Theresa Habsburg. He runs it with

the approval of current head of the house of Habsburg,

Archduke Karl Habsburg, with blessing by former archbishop

of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.