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.
Jean Frances Duff, M.A, M.P.H
President, The Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities
Ms Duff serves as chief executive of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI) an international, interfaith, multi-sector collaboration for excellent  evidence for faith groups’ activity and contribution to development and humanitarian challenges. JLI’s goal is to e...
BISHOP DR. MUNIB A. YOUNAN
Bishop Emeritus, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
Former President, the Lutheran World Federation
Honorary President, Middle East Council of Churches
Founder and member, core group of Council of Religious Institutions in the Holy Land
Judge, World Interfaith Harmony Week
Bishop Dr. Munib Younan was is the former President (2010-2017) of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), a global communion of Christian churches with 145 member churches in 79 countries representing more than 70 million Christians. In his capacity of president of the LWF the bishop signed with his H...
JOHN L. ESPOSITO
Founding Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Project Director, Bridge Initiative
Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Islamic Studies Online, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, The Oxford Encyclopedia
University Professor, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, John L. Esposito is Founding Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and The Bridge Initiative: Protecting Pluralism – Ending Islamophobia in the Walsh ...
DR. C. ROSALEE VELLOSO EWELL
Executive Director, Theological Commission, World Evangelical Alliance
Principal, Redcliffe College
Dr. C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell is the Principal of Redcliffe College (UK) and the Executive Director of the Theological Commission for the World Evangelical Alliance. She is a Brazilian theologian from São Paulo and has a PhD in theological ethics from Duke University. Rosalee also serves as New Test...
REV. DR. C. WELTON GADDY
President Emeritus and Senior Advisor, Interfaith Alliance
Pastor Emeritus, Northminster Church
Member, Council on Foreign Relations Advisory Committee
The Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy is President Emeritus of Interfaith Alliance and currently serving as their Senior Advisor. A champion of religious freedom, he also hosts a weekly national radio programme "State of Belief" in which he explores and explains the role of religion in daily life.Â...
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...
ELISABETH GUIGOU
President, Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Euromed Intercultural Dialogue
Founder, Femmes d'Europe (Women of Europe)
Politician and Former Minister, France
Elisabeth Guigou has been elected as President of the Anna Lindh Foundation in 2014. She has been a Member of the National Assembly for Seine-Saint-Denis since 2002 when she was elected Vice-President of the National Assembly (2011) and Chair President of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Mrs Guigou wa...
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...