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.
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...
CHIEF RABBI ISAAK HALEVA
Chief Rabbi of Turkey, Chief Rabbinate of Turkey
Born in Istanbul, in 1940 he graduated from Beyoğlu Jewish High School and continued his higher education at the Porat Yosef Religious Academy in Jerusalem. Graduated from the Academy as a Rabbi with degrees in religious law and education, he returned to Istanbul and started working. During the y...
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...
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...
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...
THE VENERABLE DHARMA MASTER HSIN TAO
Founder, Museum of World Religions, Taipei, Taiwan
Founder, Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Foundation
Founder, Global Family for Love and Peace (GFLP)
Born in upper Burma in 1948 to ethnic Chinese parents, Master Hsin Tao was left orphaned and impoverished at an early age. Having been taken in by the remnants of ROC military units operating along the border of Yunnan, China, he was brought to Taiwan in 1961. At the age of 15, he was deeply moved b...