Dr. Abbas Panakkal is the director of International Interfaith Harmony Initiative, which has been organising the International Interfaith Conferences in collaboration with United Nations initiatives, the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Department for Unity and Integration and the International Islamic...

Born in Syria, Ephrem has a BA in English literature and an MA in general theology from St Vladimir’s Theological Seminary, New York, USA, and a PhD in Syriac Liturgy from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon. He served at the secretary of Mor Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim, the Syriac Or...

Dr. Adriana Bara teaches Theology at Concordia University and in her courses, she promotes a sincere interreligious dialogue without over-simplification or compromise, which does not require religious neutrality or the watering down of the dialogue partners’ faith. On the contrary, she holds that...

REV. SR. AGATHA OGOCHUKWU CHIKELUE is a Nigerian Catholic Nun from the Congregation of Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy (DMMM). She is the Secretary of the Interreligious Dialogue Office of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja and Co-Chair of the Women of Faith Peacebuilding Network (WOFPN). Sr. Agath...

Chief Expert on Interaction with State Bodies, Project Office in Kazakhstan Aibek graduated in economics from the Engineering and Technical Academy of Astana. He completed additional training at the Academy of Public Administration Under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He has extensive...

Executive Director, Instituto de Dialogo Interreligioso Alejandro Williams Becker was born in Salta, Argentina, in 1988. He is a Lawyer, and holds a bachelor’s degree in political science, as well as diplomas in human rights, and in public policies for motherhood and early childhood from the Pont...

Anthropologist and Research Fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Dr. Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović is a research fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Belgrade, Serbia). She studied philology at th...

Rev. Alexander Goldberg is a Chaplain and an advisor on intercultural, interfaith and community relations to a large global humanitarian organization. He has set up training programmes for faith leaders and communal professionals working in the fields of community development, international developm...

Dr. Amanah Nurish is an Indonesian ethnographer and anthropologist. She is a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Dept. of Anthropology – Stanford University. She teaches at the School of Strategic and Global Studies, University of Indonesia. Before working in academic field, she worked as a regional...

Senior Training Coordinator, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development Amanpreet holds a Master’s in Business Administration from ICFAI University, India. She has over six years of rich and varied experience working with organizations and people engaged in the fields of youth and s...