Victor Chan

Victor Chan is a Trustee and founding Director of the Center.

Victor has known the Dalai Lama for over 30 years and is co-author with the Dalai Lama of "The Wisdom of Forgiveness: Intimate Conversations and Journeys with the Dalai Lama" (available via Amazon.com). Victor was Chair of the Organizing Committee responsible for the visit of the Dalai Lama to Vancouver in 2004. He and Professor Pitman Potter, Director of the Institute of Asian Research, UBC convened the symposium on "How to Balance Educating the Mind with Educating the Heart" which featured the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Professor Jo-Ann Archibald.

With Pitman Potter, Victor was instrumental in establishing a Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at UBC and was the first Executive Director of that program.