William René Leon founded and coordinated the CAIRN Consortium. In its regulations he is recorded as EXE/FO, with the functions of chief executive, General Secretary and coordination. This page records his work in the network the documents preserve.
Role in the network
In the member-status list of the surviving regulations Leon appears first, under Nepal, for the CAIRN Consortium itself, with the status EXE/FO and the functions of chief executive, General Secretary and coordination (CAIRN-2008-MOU). The same corpus shows him as the point through which the network's parts were held together: Nepal and the St Xavier's campus in Kathmandu, Swansea, Louvain, Canada, the United States, France and Italy.
The Keltic and Himalayan lines
The Avalon / Verdon material names Leon alongside Tibetan and Mongolian teachers and Dr. Marco Paret in connection with the Valcros Raven Retreat of 2008–2009, and with escorted journeys to Keltic and Cathar sites in South France (CAIRN-2012-AVALON). Those pages were still being updated in July 2012.
Correspondence
Three letters in the private archive show his hand directly. In December 2013 he writes of rebooting the Professional Doctorate School, with research for 2014 and limited annual training in the Nice area, with Paret as partner. In August 2015 he circulates an upgrading of the school and a proposed board structure. In February 2018 he writes from Kathmandu that he will study, edit and give feedback on material Paret has been sending, and asks him to continue.
Read together, and read carefully, those three letters describe a coordinator still coordinating: planning, restructuring, and reading other people's work. That is the figure this archive preserves.
CAIRN MoU / Upgraded Regulations
Defines the consortium by Memorandum of Understanding, sets out committees and member statuses, and lists ISI-CNV / Marco Paret as EXE/FO.
Internet Archive capture · original URL: https://cairn-alliance.tripod.com/protocole.html (offline since 24 April 2026)
Avalon / Verdon — Caer~Sidi (2012)
Names William René Leon, Tibetan teachers and Dr. Marco Paret in connection with the Valcros Raven Retreat 2008–2009 and with escorted journeys to Keltic and Cathar sites in South France.
Internet Archive capture · original URL: https://avalon-verdon.tripod.com/index2012.html (offline since 24 April 2026)
W. R. Leon to M. Paret — rebooting CAIRN
Leon writes to Paret that they are rebooting the CAIRN Professional Doctorate School, with R&D activity for 2014 and limited annual training events in the Nice area, with Paret as partner.
private archive, internal reference 143432b07c00aa9a