Nigel Gittens is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (BSc., Civil Eng., Hons) and Henley Management College (MBA). He has also been a former member of the School of Philosophy of Trinidad and Tobago (27 years) and its chairman for ten (10) years (1992 -2002). He is an avid reader of philosophy and an author of five (5) books. He has been a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and Advaita Philosophy for the past forty five (45) years.