Charles L. Harper

Dr. Harper Jr. is a Consultant for Vision-Five.
Dr. Harper previous experience includes 13 years as Senior VP of the John Templeton Foundation.
His primary responsibilities are in the areas of strategic planning, program design and development, vision casting, philanthropic networks development, and talent scouting.
He is the founding Chairman of Geneva Global, Inc, and innovative new philanthropic organization making grants worldwide within the developing world.
In his science career, he was National Research Council Fellow at the NASA Johnson Space Center (1988-91) and a research scientist in the Harvard Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and at the Harvard College Observatory (1991-95).
He has developed a number of scientific symposia and related research volumes of which he is co-editor.
Dr. Harper obtained his D.Phil.
in planetary science from the University of Oxford for a thesis on the nature of time in cosmology (’88).
He also holds the Diploma in Theology from Oxford (’88) and a Certificate of Special Studies in Management and Administration from Harvard (’97).