Born in Europe, raised in India and now living in the U.S, Dr Sharma spend a significant part of his life in a spiritually oriented residential school in India where meditation was a part of daily life. He then went on to study at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. On receipt of a full Scholarship, he went to Europe, where he graduated from the University of Durham as "Outstanding Student of the Year."
After a successful career running a software company, Dr Sharma returned to his core interest in the potential of the human mind and how to develop it through meditation and other life enhancing skills he has learnt. He is the author of "From Here to Happiness" and several guided meditations. He is also a director of East-West School of Integrative Healing Arts that he runs along with his wife Kristen,