Leadership
Board of Directors
President
KM Wehrstein
BAA (Journalism) · Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
A journalist by training, KM is a reincarnation researcher, writer and novelist, and one of the Psi Encyclopedia’s most prolific writers and editors. KM first raised the idea of ICRR in 2015 and founded it in 2021.
Research Director
Robert Giacalone, PhD
Austin, Texas, USA
Bob holds the Fields Chair in Ethics and Corporate Responsibility at Texas State University. He has written or edited more than ten books and 150 articles on ethics and values, and keeps our research on the scientific straight and narrow.
Visual Director
Ben Bagley
Birmingham, UK
A designer and developer based in Birmingham, Ben designed the ICRR logo and built our websites. He was part of the original Steering Committee. Ben also works on the Published Reincarnation Cases Database (PRCDb), where he builds the data pipeline that extracts case data from published reports and compiles it into the database.
Advisers
Science Council
Michael Nahm, PhD
Freiburg, Germany
A biologist at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) in Freiburg. He coined the term “terminal lucidity” with Bruce Greyson, and researches near-death experiences, reincarnation and mediumship.
Ohkado Masayuki, PhD
Kasugai, Japan
A professor of linguistics at Chubu University in Japan, Masayuki researches reincarnation and children’s memories of birth, life before birth and the time between lives, as well as near-death experiences.
Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD
UVA Division of Perceptual Studies
A Research Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies, Marieta studies children who report past-life memories, near-death experiences and after-death communications.
Research network
Supporting Researchers
Kuldip Dhiman, PhD
Chandigarh, India
A philosopher with a doctorate from Punjab University, Kuldip has investigated more than a dozen reincarnation cases, including a follow-up study with Antonia Mills, and has translated classic Sanskrit texts into English.
Jyoti Gupta, PhD
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Associate Director of the International Centre for Reincarnation and Survival Researches, Jyoti studies reincarnation cases through the horoscopes of the previous and present persons, with Dr. Kirti Swaroop Rawat.
Sharon Rawlette, PhD
Fredericksburg, Virginia
A philosopher with a PhD from New York University, Sharon writes on consciousness, anomalous experience and spirituality. Her books include Beyond Death and The Source and Significance of Coincidences.
Tricia Robertson
Milngavie, UK
A psychical researcher with some 30 years of investigating spontaneous cases, Tricia is a past President of the Scottish Society for Psychical Research and has co-authored papers with Professor Archie Roy.
Carol Bowman
Media, Pennsylvania, USA
A past-life therapist from 1989 to 2023, Carol is the author of Children’s Past Lives and Return from Heaven, published in 22 languages, about young children’s spontaneous past-life memories.
In memoriam
Titus Rivas
Nijmegen, Netherlands
A Dutch researcher and co-founder of the Athanasia Foundation, Titus studied near-death experiences, reincarnation and pre-birth memories. His books include The Self Does Not Die. He died in September 2026.
Dieter Hassler
Uttenreuth, Germany
An engineer who spent most of his career in medical device research, Dieter has researched reincarnation for many years and written four books on it, starting with children’s memories of past lives.