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.
RABBI AMY EILBERG
Coordinator of Jewish Community Engagement, Faith in Action Bay Area
Member of Steering Committee, Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice
Rabbi Amy Eilberg is the first woman ordained as a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.She serves as the Coordinator of Jewish Engagement for Faith in Action Bay Area, a multi-faith, multi-racial social justice organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. She previouslyÂ...
IMAM ABDOULAYE OUASSELEGUE
Vice President, Islamic Council Central African Republic
Coordinator, Islamic Relief Central African Republic
Secretary General, Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulemas, Morocco
Abdoulaye Ouasselegue, currently Imam of the Petevo mosque in Bangui and coordinator of Islamic Relief in Central African Republic, is the vice president and spokesperson of the Islamic Council in Central African Republic. Secretary General of the Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulemas, Abdoulaye ...
HONOURABLE ELA GANDHI
Trustee, Gandhi Development Trust
Ela Gandhi is the granddaughter of Mohandas Gandhi, also known as 'Mahatma' (great soul) Gandhi, the man who famously led Indians to independence from their British colonizers in 1946. She was born in 1940 and grew up in the Phoenix Settlement, the first Ashram established by Mahatma Gandhi,...
DR. MARK OWEN
Secretary General, ECRL European Council of Religious Leaders
Director, Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace, University of Winchester
Dr Mark Owen holds a BA in Theology and Religious Studies, MA in World Religions, and PhD in Tibetan Buddhism. Mark has extensive experience of working with interfaith and multi-faith organisations, and an academic and practical background in religious peacebuilding. Dr Owen has been Secretary Gener...
Imam Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini
President, CO.RE.IS. (Comunità Religiosa Islamica) Italiana
ISESCO Ambassador, Dialogue among Civilizations
Co-Coordinator, the European MJLC Muslim and Jewish Leadership Council
Council Member, ECRL European Council of Religious Leaders
Yahya Pallavicini is president of COREIS, the Islamic Religious Community of Italy, one of the principal organisations of institutional representation of Islam in Italy with a vocation for theological training, ecumenism and intercultural education in the West (www.coreis.it). Yahya has been a me...
NYAMBURA GICHUKI
End Child Poverty Programs Officer, Arigatou International
I am committed to sharing hope and developing the leadership capabilities of the young women and men that I serve. I believe in investing in people and enabling them to live a meaningful life, because every person matters. It’s with this purpose that I engage in interfaith cooperation and promo...
Maria Teresa "Marites" Guingona-Africa, Ph.D.
Founder and Executive Director, Peacemakers' Circle Foundation, Inc.
Marites Africa, Ph.D. has worked for the past twenty years on grassroots Muslim-Christian community-building around conflict-ridden communities in Metro Manila and North Cotabato, Mindanao. While she is a lecturer on Muslim-Christian Dialogue for Nation-Building and Conflict Transformation and Peace...
AMBASSADOR MUSSIE HAILU
Global Envoy, United Religions Initiative (URI)
URI Representative, African Union and United Nations Office in Nairobi & Geneva
Regional Director, URI Africa
Ambassador Mussie Hailu is a peace and interfaith activist who is working at national, regional and international levels for peace, reconciliation, interfaith harmony, human dignity, environmental protection, compassion for animals, disarmament, the control of the proliferation of small arms and l...
PASTOR DR. JAMES Movel Wuye
Co-Executive Director, Interfaith Mediation Centre
James Wuye is an Assemblies of God Pastor and co-director with Imam Muhammad Ashafa of the Interfaith Mediation Center of the Muslim-Christian Dialogue in the Kaduna State, Northern Nigeria. He is the son a soldier who fought the Biafra War. During the 1980s and 1990s, James Wuye got involved in Chr...