Peter BowdenPeter Bowden is a retired academic, previously professor of Administrative Studies at the University of Manchester, and before that, as Coordinator of the MBA program at Monash University in Australia He has followed a long-term interest in examiningapproaches to improving our lives, enhanced through many years consulting work and travel advising the World Bank and United Nations agencies on approaches to wellbeing and livelihood in close to 40 developing countries. This work was primarily aimed at determining how the functions of government could be more effectively managed. Since retirement Peter has taught ethics at the University of Sydney and written two books on this topic, as well as the current book on successful ageing. Read More Read Less