Vic is an expatriate Australian citizen living full-time in India since 1996. Vic has been proactively involved in advocating permaculture design systems and methodologies for more than 20 years, in both Australia and India. He is also noted in the fields of international immigration, law and education services, has launched a number of schools & educational institutions in India, and was involved with the Australian grassroots organisations "Down to Earth" movement and "Friends of the Earth" in the early days of their inception in the 1970's.