 The abbot is the Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera, usually known as Ajahn Brahm, born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom on 7 August 1951.In the late 1960s he graduated with a degree in theoretical physics from Cambridge University.After graduation he taught at a high school in Devon, United Kingdom 
for one year before travelling to Thailand to become a monk and train with the late Venerable Ajahn Chah Bodhinyana Mahathera.