KAICIID Fellows
The Venerable Sangharakkhita
The Venerable Sangharakkhita Olivier Biraro was born in Rwanda in 1981. At age 17, he started practicing Buddhism and later became the first and the only Buddhist Monk in the Theravada Tradition from Rwanda. He is an inspirational speaker on subjects of inner peace, forgiveness, reconciliation and t...
Thomas Maximos Pafilis
His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitini was born in Karditsa, Greece in 1978. He studied English literature at the University of Michigan; history at Deree College, the American College of Greece; theology in Thessalonica and Athens, Greece. He received his master’s degree in and communications at th...
Tirmizy Abdullah
Tirmizy Esmail Abdullah is the current Interfaith Cooperation Forum (ICF) national coordinator in the Philippines. ICF is an Asian movement for justice and transformation that is interreligious in nature, is regional in scope, focuses on marginalised communities, confronts the roots of violence and ...
Tsegahun Assefa Adugna
Youth Coordinator of the Lutheran Communion in Central and Eastern Africa Tsegahun Assefa is the Youth Coordinator of the Lutheran Communion in Central and Eastern Africa. He is also the director of the Children and Youth Ministry Department of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, the lar...
Tushar Kanti Baidya
Project Director, Inclusive Bangladesh Tushar is an educator, peacemaker and human rights activist from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is currently the project director of Inclusive Bangladesh, a youth-led community organization, and runs two projects on social cohesion – “Faith in the Commonwealth&...
Uzair Ben Ebrahin
Educator, Futures Academy Uzair Ben Ebrahim is an educator, linguist, facilitator, social justice advocate, decolonialist, performance poet and writer. He holds a B.A. (2014) in linguistics, arabic language and literature, and Hebrew language and literature; a post-graduate certificate (2016) in ed...
Vasiliki Missira
Vassiliki Missira is a national expert of the EU Commission, Athens (Team Europe Programme, Greece) on issues related to Human Rights and Democracy. She has worked for the Directorate-General for Communication, European Parliament Information Office, Athens. Previously, Vassiliki taught a course on...
Ven. Acinna
Ven Acinna is a Buddhist monk from Myanmar. He is studying for his doctorate at Postgraduate Institute of Buddhist and Pali Studies, University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka. He received his L.L.B from Yangon University in 2004 and his M.A (Buddhist Studies) from Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lank...
Venerable Galkande Dhammananda Thero
Venerable Galkande Dhammananda Thero is a Sri Lankan national and a monk of Theravada Buddhist tradition. After completing his monastic training, Dhammanand Thero attended the University of Kelaniya where he received a Bachelor’s degree in History. After winning the commonwealth Scholarship in 200...