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. MARGARETHA MARIA HENDRIKS-RIRIMASSE
Lecturer, Theological Faculty, Indonesian Christian University in Moluccas (UKIM)
Pastor (Em), Protestant Church in the Moluccas
Advisory Forum Member, Moluccas Ambassdors for Peace (MAP)
Co-Founder, Arika Mahina
Rev. Dr. Margaretha Hendriks-Ririmasse of the Protestant Church in the Moluccas was dean of the Theological Faculty of the Indonesian Christian University in Moluccas, and until 2013, the Vice moderator of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (CC WCC). In Indonesia, Hendriks-Ririma...
Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit
General Secretary, World Council of Churches
Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit was elected general secretary of the World Council of Churches in August 2009 and installed in January 2010. An ordained minister in the Church of Norway, Dr Tveit has led the 350-member fellowship of Christian churches from 110 countries, representing about 550 million Chri...
FATHER AMEER JAJE
Founding Member, Iraqi Council of Interfaith Dialogue
Advisor, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (ICID)
Professor, Catholic Institute for Theology in Paris
Father Ameer Jaje is a Dominican priest and Advisor to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and Professor at the Catholic Institute for Theology in Paris. He is a Founding Member of the Iraqi Council for Interfaith Dialogue since 2013 and Member of the Dominican Institute of Orienta...
JENNY KARTUPELIS
Director, Faith in Society Ltd
Strategy and Development Officer, World Congress of Faiths
Jenny Kartupelis was Director of the East England Faiths Council for 11 years, and a vital member in its establishment. The Council’s main goals were to advocate for faith in civil society, work with local and national governments, and support local interfaith initiatives. Kartupelis has a profess...
ARAM I KESHISHIAN
Patriarch, The Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia
Born in 1947, in Beirut, Lebanon, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I studied at the Armenian Theological Seminary, Antelias, Lebanon and the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, Geneva, Switzerland. He received his M.Div. from the Near East School of Theology, his S.T.M. jointly from the American University ...
SISTER EMILY (EMELINE) TANNOUS
Director, MECC Theological and Ecumenical Department (TED)
Sister Emily (Emeline) Tannous is a member of the religious order dedicated to Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, founded in Lebanon in 1853 and currently coordinator of the Theological and Ecumenical Department in MECC. Committed to the pastoral life in the church and to ecumenical, interfaith and in...
The Right Rev. William E. Swing
President and Founder, United Religions Initiative
Co-Founder, Episcopal Community Services
Retired Episcopal, Bishop, California, USA
Bishop William Swing is the President and Founder of the URI. Bishop Swing had the original vision of URI in 1993 in response to an invitation from the United Nations which asked him to host an interfaith service honoring the 50th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter. Bishop Swing served as ...
REV. HELEN SUMMERS
Founder and Director, The Interfaith Centre of Melbourne
Advisory Group Member, Multifaith Advisory Group (MAG)
Reverend Helen Summers is an Interfaith Minister, ordained in New York in 1997. Helen is the founder and director of The Interfaith Centre of Melbourne. Helen served as a Board Member of the 2009 Melbourne Parliament of the World’s Religions and Chair of the Arts and Culture Committee. She is a me...
MOST. REV. BISHOP MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH
Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto
Matthew Hassan Kukah is the current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto in northwestern Nigeria. He was ordained on December 19, 1976. He was formerly the Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Kaduna until he was ord...
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....