Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is an award-winning engineer, international bestselling author, and philanthropist. At Google, where he held the title of Jolly Good Fellow, he led the creation of the groundbreaking mindfulness course called Search Inside Yourself.

Meng is Co-chair of One Billion Acts of Peace, which has been nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and seven other Nobel laureates for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is Co-founder of Buddhism .net, and served as Executive Producer of the movie, "Walk With Me", about Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. He is also Founding Patron of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), and adviser to a number of technology start-ups.

Meng delivered a TED talk on compassion at the United Nations, spoke about the development of kindness at the White House, and led mindfulness practice at the Vatican. He was featured on the front page of the New York Times. He has met four United States Presidents. The Dalai Lama gives him hugs. His personal motto is, "Life is too important to be taken seriously".