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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.

PRINCIPAL SUKOMAL BARUA

President, Bangladesh Chapter, Asian Conference of Religions for Peace

President, Bangladesh Inter-religious Writers and Journalists Association

President, Warm Heart - Bangladesh

Principal Sukomal Barua is President of the Asian Conference of Religions for Peace (Religions for Peace Asia) Bangladesh Chapter and a member of Governing Board and Executive Committee ACRP.  He is also the President of Bangladesh Inter-religious Writers and Journalists Association as well as the...

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DR. MOHAMED BECHARI

Secretary General, World Muslim Communities Council

President, French National Federation of Muslims (FNMF)

Secretary General, Islamic European Conference (EIC/CIE)

Founder and President, Avicenne Institute of Human Sciences, Lille (IASH)

Dr. Bechari, born in Morocco, is a leader and prolific and dynamic public figure in the landscape of European Islam. He is the President of the French National Federation of Muslims, one of the leading entities organizing Islam in France. He is also the Secretary General of the Islamic European Conf...

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MR. DAVIDE BERNOCCHI

Country Representative, Moldova & Ukraine, Catholic Relief Services is

Davide Bernocchi is the Country Representative, Moldova & Ukraine, for the Catholic Relief Services since 2022. Before he was Caritas Internationalis’ Special Advisor on Ecumenical and Interreligious Partnership. Headquartered in the Vatican City, Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 165 ...

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HIS EXCELLENCY SHAYKH ‘ABDALLAH BIN BAYYAH

President, Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies

Chairman, United Arab Emirates Fatwa Council

Co-Moderator and Executive Committee Member, Religions for Peace (RfP)

Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah was born in 1935 in the East of Mauritania. He is a scholar who grew up in a house known for its scholarship; his father Shaykh Mahfoudh Ben Bayah, may God have mercy on him, was one of the region’s eminent scholars and the head of the Conference of Mauritanian Scholars ...

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MARY BRAYBROOKE

Vice-President, World Congress of Faiths

Member of Fellowship of Reconciliation, United Religions Initiative; Faith and Belief Forum; Peace Council; Council of Christians and Jews

Wise Woman, Brahma Kumaris

A Vice-President of the World Congress of Faiths, Mary Braybrooke has been part of this organization for over fifty years. She grew up as a Methodist  and Unitarian and is now an Anglican and has been a member of the Oxford Diocesan Synod. She has always enjoyed interfaith services. Braybrooke has ...

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Katharina von Schnurbein

Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism, European Commission

In December 2015, Katharina von Schnurbein, a German national, was appointed the first European Commission Coordinator on combating Antisemitism. Before, she was an advisor to Commission President José Manuel Barroso on the Commission's dialogue with Churches, religions, philosophical and non-c...

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REV. DR. MARCUS BRAYBROOKE

Joint President, World Congress of Faiths

Co-Founder, Faith and Belief Forum (formerly the Three Faiths Forum)

Marcus Braybrooke is a retired Anglican parish priest. He and his wife Mary, a social worker, have  been  interfaith and peace activists for fifty years. He joined the World Congress of Faiths in 1964 and is now Joint-President. He was Director of the Council of Christians and Jews (1984-7), Inte...

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Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zakzouk

Member, Senior Scholar Council of Al Azhar

Mahmoud Hamdi Zakzouk, born in Dakahlia on 27 December 1933, is an Egyptian academic and politician. He is a professor of philosophy and teaches philosophy at his alma mater, Al Azhar University. He is the Egypt's former minister of religious endowment which he held from 1996 to 2011. He obtaine...

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HIS GRACE DR. LUIGI BRESSAN

Former Archbishop of Trento, R.C. Archdiocese of Trento

His Grace, Archbishop Luigi Bressan, was born in 1940 in Trento (Italy) and was ordained Priest in 1964 and Bishop in 1989, promoted as Archbishop of Trento in 1999. He resigned because of age in 2016 and was appointed  National Assistant of two Italian Associations dealing with development project...

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GRAND MUFTI OF BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA MUSTAFA CERIC

President, World Bosniak Congress

Co-founder, Interreligious Council of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Co-founder, Executive Committee, European Council of Religious Leaders

Co-founder, International Commission for Peace Research, UNESCO

Dr. Mustafa Ceric has served as the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1999. Ceric was educated at al-Azhar University in Cairo and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He served as the Imam of  the Islamic Center of Zagreb in Croatia, and later of the Islamic Cultural Center in ...

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