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.
REV. DR. SIMONE SINN
Professor of Ecumenical Theology at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland (part of the World Council of Churches and attached to the University of Geneva)
Coordinator of the CAS, Interreligious Studies at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey
Managing Editor of Current Dialogue, the World Council of Churches journal on interreligious dialogue
Since 2013, Rev. Dr Simone Sinn serves as study secretary for public theology and interreligious relations at the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Geneva (Switzerland). The LWF is a global communion of 145 churches in the Lutheran tradition, representing over 72 million Christians in 98 countries....
SIS. LOH PAI LING
President, Buddhist Missionary Society Malaysia
Chairman, Standing Committee of Interfaith Dialogue, World Fellowship of Buddhists
Vice-Chairman, International Association of Liberal Religious Women, Malaysia Chapter (Protem)
Member, Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism
Loh Pai Ling or fondly known as Sister Pai Ling is a lawyer by training, graduated with a LLB degree from the University of London (External), with a Master Degree in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Hull, UK. Sis. Pai Ling has been serving with Buddhist Missionary Society M...
SAMIRA LUKA
Senior Director for Dialogue, Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS)
Member, National Council for Women, Cairo Branch
Member, Board of Trustees,"Bat Elaala"
Samira Luka serves as Senior Director for Dialogue in CEOSS (Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services), a non-governmental organization dedicated to social and cultural development, social justice and inter-religious dialogue in Egypt. Samira works at the international level, as well as...
ARCHBISHOP FELIX ANTHONY MACHADO
Archbishop, Catholic Diocese of Vasai
Archbishop Felix Anthony Machado was born on June 6, 1948 in Remedy in Vasai Diocese. He was ordained a priest in October of 1976 in the Archdiocese of Bombay. In May 1998 he was incardinated in the Diocese of Vasai. He was appointed as the Archbishop of Nashik in January 2008 and was ordained in Ma...
PROF. DR. MUHAMMAD MACHASIN
Professor of History of Islamic History and Cultures, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Head, Dian-Interfidei Foundation
Former Director General, Islamic Community Guidance, Ministry of Religious Affairs Jakarta, Indonesia
Dr. Muhammad Machasin is a professor of history of Islamic cultures at the Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (UIN) Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has been actively promoting interfaith dialogue and is a member of the board of the Asian Council on Religion and Peace. He used to be one of the Heads (...
SHAIKH SYED ARSHAD MADANI
President, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind
Shaikh Arshad Madani is the son of Maulana Syed Hussain Ahmad Madani, who was the former President, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind and Prisoner of Malta. He was also Head of Teachers and Professor of Hadees in Darul Uloom, Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India. Since 2006, Shaikh Arshad Madani has been President of Ja...
PROF. KATHERINE MARSHALL
Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue
Senior Fellow, Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Katherine Marshall is one of the founders and currently the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue. She is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, where she manages work on religion and global development, as well as holding a professor posi...
DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL KYOICHI SUGINO
Deputy Secretary General, Religions for Peace (RfP)
Rev. Kyoichi Sugino serves as the Deputy Secretary General of Religions for Peace (RfP). He coordinates RfP’s affiliated interreligious councils, women and youth networks in more than 90 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Rev. Sugino has been directly engaged in ...
REV. DR. ANDREA ZAKI STEPHANOUS
General Director, Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS)
President, Protestant Churches of Egypt
Rev. Dr. Andrea Zaki Stephanous, born 1960, is General Director of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services and President of the Protestant churches of Egypt. After receiving his Bachelor of Theology from Cairo Evangelical Seminary, Cairo, Egypt in 1983, he went to Coady International...
MOST REVEREND JAMES MASSA
Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, Moderator of the Curia, Vicar for Education, Vicar for Evangelization, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn
The Most Reverend James Massa is an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. A graduate of Boston College and Yale University’s School of Divinity, the Most Reverend Massa pursued his doctorate in systematic theology at Fordham University in New York, where he wrote his disserta...