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.

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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REV. DR. KAREN HAMILTON

Co-President, Religions for Peace (RfP)

Former General Secretary, Canadian Council of Churches

The Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton is an ordained minister in The United Church of Canada and served for 15 years as the General Secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC), the broadest ecumenical council in the world.  She is also creator and past chair of The Canadian Interfaith Conversation a...

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WARWICK HAWKINS

Director, Faith in Society Ltd

Strategy Adviser, Faiths Forum for London

Executive Committee member, World Congress of Faiths

Trustee, St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

Administrator, Inform (Information Network on Religious Movements)

As a career civil servant, Warwick advised successive British Governments on religious engagement for 18 years. In this role he devised and implemented numerous projects designed to encourage interreligious dialogue and social action. His portfolio also included neighbourhood empowerment through com...

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DR. CHARLES C. HAYNES

Vice president, Newseum Institute

Executive director, Religious Freedom Center

Dr. Charles C. Haynes is vice president of the Newseum Institute, founding director of the Religious Freedom Center and a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center. He writes and speaks extensively on religious liberty and religion in American public life. Haynes is best known for his work on Fir...

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REV. SUSAN HAYWARD

Senior Advisor for Religion and Inclusive Societies, United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

Susan Hayward is a senior advisor for religion and inclusive societies at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Hayward directs the Institute’s efforts to advance conflict prevention, resolution and reconciliation projects engaging the religious sector. Since joining the Institute in 2007, her field work h...

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