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Who is Who in Interreligious Dialogue

The KAICIID Who is Who in Interreligious Dialogue is an online directory of individuals active and expert in the field of IRD including religious leaders, policymakers, heads of international organizations, teachers, trainers and activists.  Search the directory to connect with experts and specialists from every region engaged in a wide variety of initiatives.

PROF. DR. DIN SYAMSUDDIN

Professor, National Islamic University Indonesia

Former President, Muhammadiyah

Din Syamsuddin is a Professor on Islamic Political Thought at National Islamic University, Jakarta. Currently he is acting as Special Envoy of the President of Republic of Indonesia for Interfaith and Intercivilizational Dialogue and Cooperation. He was President of Muhammadiyah, from 2005 to 2015, ...

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The Right Rev. William E. Swing

President and Founder, United Religions Initiative

Co-Founder, Episcopal Community Services

Retired Episcopal, Bishop, California, USA

Bishop William Swing is the President and Founder of the URI. Bishop Swing had the original vision of URI in 1993 in response to an invitation from the United Nations which asked him to host an interfaith service honoring the 50th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter. Bishop Swing served as ...

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DR. LEONARD SWIDLER

Founder and Director, Dialogue Institute

Co-Founder/Editor, Journal of Ecumenical Studies

Professor of Catholic Thought & Interreligious Dialogue, Temple University

Leonard is a Professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue in the Religion Department of Temple University, where he has taught since 1966. At Temple, and as a visiting professor at universities around the world – including Graz, Austria; Tübingen, Germany; Fudan University, Shanghai;...

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REV. HELEN SUMMERS

Founder and Director, The Interfaith Centre of Melbourne

Advisory Group Member, Multifaith Advisory Group (MAG)

Reverend Helen Summers is an Interfaith Minister, ordained in New York in 1997. Helen is the founder and director of The Interfaith Centre of Melbourne. Helen served as a Board Member of the 2009 Melbourne Parliament of the World’s Religions and Chair of the Arts and Culture Committee. She is a me...

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VEN. GIJUN SUGITANI

Chair, Religions for Peace Japan

Supreme Advisor, Tendai Buddhist Denomination

Ven. Gijun Sugitani graduated from the faculty of law, and in 1972 he completed all the required units of PhD program in advanced literary studies. In 1968, he was ordained as the Chief Priest of Enju-in Temple of the Tendai Buddhist Denomination. A year after he was elected as the General Secretary...

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STEVE KILLELEA

Founder and Executive Chairman, Institute for Economics and Peace

Honorary President, Religions for Peace (RfP)

After establishing himself as a successful entrepreneur in software and technology, Steve Killelea became prominent in philanthropic work centered around sustainable development and peace. His first company, Integrated Research Ltd (IR), focused on payments software and performance management for b...

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MAQSOUD KRUSE

Executive Director, Hedayah Centre

Maqsoud Kruse has been the Executive Director of Hedayah, The International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism, since its founding in December 2012. He is also a Steering Board Member of the Policy, Think and Do Tanks Constituency for the Global Community Engagement and Resilience...

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MOST. REV. BISHOP MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH

Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto

Matthew Hassan Kukah is the current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto in northwestern Nigeria.  He was ordained on December 19, 1976.  He was formerly the Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Kaduna until he was ord...

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RABBI JOSEPH LEVI

President, Florence School of Advances Studies for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue

Director of Shemah, School for Jewish Studies and culture, Margulies Levinas, Florence

Professor, Cardinal Bea Center for Judaic Studies, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome

Former President , Rabbis for Human Rights, Israel (1993-1996)

Member, European Rabbinical Conference

Rabbi, scholar of Jewish thought. Professor of Jewish Philosophy of the Renaissance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the Center for Studies on the Renaissance and the University of Siena. Since 2006 he has been teaching Jewish Thought and History of the Jewish Liturgy at the Bea Center ...

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PROF. DR. AMY-JILL LEVINE

University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University

Mary Jane Werthan Professor, Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt Divinity School

Professor, Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences

Affiliated Professor, Woolf Institute: Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge

Amy-Jill Levine (B.A. Smith College; M.A./Ph.D. Duke University) is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies, and Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Graduate Department of Religion, and College of Arts and ...

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