Brother Piers Vaughan is an academic Freemason, and has spoken at academic institutions and esteemed lodges of research around the World. He is a Past Assistant District Grand Lecturer and a Past Master of St Johns Lodge No. 1 Ancient York Masons in New York City. Piers A. Vaughan holds dual citizenship in the UK and the US, is a former resident of Manhattan and currently resides in Bayonne, New Jersey. Professionally, Piers is the Managing Director of Operations and Technology at Globecon located adjacent to the Financial District in Manhattan. He has almost three decades of experience focused exclusively in the banking and financial services sector working formerly for HSBC & Deutsche Bank. Piers earned his his MA from Oxford University (Exeter College) & his Masters in Music at Trinity College at Oxford and his MBA at the European based Cranfield School of Management. Piers is a Member of the Association of Project Managers since 1993. Piers has directed choirs throughout Europe & has performed as a solo vocalist in New York City and Washington DC's largest cathedrals. The Most Reverend Piers A. Vaughan is also an ordained & licensed minister in the State of New York, having been consecrated a Bishop in the Old Templar Holy Catholic & Apostolic Church & an Arch Bishop in the Ecclesia Rosae Rubeae & Aureae Crucis. Piers holds the lines of recognized Eastern and Western Orthodox, Armenian, Syrian, Ethiopian, Independent, Protestant and Catholic Churches and many others. Having founded the Rose Circle Research Society, Piers currently serves as its President. He is a Knight Grand Cross in several Chivalric Orders in Europe, a High Councillor & Magus in the Masonic Rosicrucians & a very senior FreeMason in various Orders around the world. He is perhaps most famous as a translator of rare French texts, a noted speaker and author. Piers is a subject matter expert on the Scottish Rectified Rite, a very old 18th Century Rite of spiritual Freemasonry with a Christian requisite starting at the Apprentice degree. Piers has reached the Ne Plus Ultra summit of Masonry as a Knight Beneficent of the Holy City in the Grand Priory of Belgium and currently serves as the Deputy Master of Willermoz Lodge No. 1, a lodge of Scottish Masters of Saint Andrew in the Northeast Prefecture.
Piers can be heard speaking at the House of the Temple in Washington DC here: http://xoriente.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/episode_017m_ch.html
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