Shoukei Matsumoto is a Buddhist monk, author, and Director of the Living Dharma Centre in Vancouver, Canada, a space for secular spirituality now in soft launch. He also serves as Professor of Practice at Musashino University (Tokyo) and, since 2025, as Mercator Visiting Professor for AI in the Human Context at the University of Bonn (Germany).

Operating at the intersection of spirituality, technology and ethics, Matsumoto is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Leadership (2025-2026), where he leads the Council's Leadership Compass workstream, and an alumnus of the Forum of Young Global Leaders (2013). He collaborates with the Vatican's Aurora initiative on moral frameworks for artificial intelligence, and has been in dialogue with thinkers including Yuval Noah Harari, Audrey Tang, Roman Krznaric and Markus Gabriel through platforms such as the World Economic Forum and UNDP.

Holding a BA in Philosophy from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from the Indian School of Business, he is the founder of Interbeing Inc. and the Institute for Temple Management, applying innovative management approaches to Buddhist tradition and mentoring leaders worldwide on becoming good ancestors.

He is the author of the international bestseller A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind (translated into more than twenty languages) and Work Like a Monk (Simon & Schuster, 2025), and the Japanese translator of Roman Krznaric's The Good Ancestor. He lives in Kyoto, Japan.