Shams Alsaby holds a master’s degree in public administration with a minor in non-profit management from the University of Baltimore and is an alumna of the Salam for Cultural Communication Programme. She works at one of the biggest NGOs in Saudi Arabia and worked in the humanitarian field. Shams ...

Sheikh Abdullah Ameri is Assistant Undersecretary for Islamic Affairs in Saudi Arabia. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Religion from Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, and is a member of a number of local religious committees. ...

Mohammed Kassim is the director of the Academic Administration Department at the Islamic University College, Ghana, where he served as the head of religious studies department for the 2012/2013 academic year. He also served as a lecturer in the religious studies department from 2009 after the compl...

Assistant Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, College of Humanities, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Kevin Shijja Kuhumba is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam – Tanzania. He has an advanced di...

Simon has been educated in China, the USA and Germany. He completed a Rotary Peace Fellowship as a Bhichai Rattakul Fellow and Study of US Institutes on Religious Pluralism in Philadelphia. Simon has engaged in a wide range of interreligious activities and introduced literature on interfaith dialogu...

Director General, Christian Youth for Peace & Development Initiative, Special Assistant to the Governor of Nasarawa State on Christian Religious Affairs Leadership Initiative International Simon Abu Samson, from Nigeria, has many years of experience working in policy and interreligious dialogue...

Dr. Simran Jeet Singh is an educator, activist, and writer who is a Visiting Professor at Union Seminary and host of Spirited, a new interview-based podcast about spirituality, faith, and activism. Simran serves as a columnist for Religion News Service and a chaplain at Columbia University and New Y...

As a result of her master’s degree in socio-cultural anthropology she received from the Durham University in Durham, UK, during which she specialised in religious anthropology and world cultures, Sneha has gained deep insights on how religion is misused to incite conflict. Coming from India, she h...

Sofiane Elhabib Chetioui was born in 1986, in the province of Eloued, Algeria. He is the Imam Khatib of the Ammar ben Yasser Mosque in Batna, Algeria, and a teaching assistant at the University of Batna. He has a master’s degree in doctrine from Aldjinane University, Lebanon and in comparative rel...