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.
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 ...
DR. LEONARD SWIDLER
Founder and Director, Dialogue Institute
Co-Founder/Editor, Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Professor of Catholic Thought & Interreligious Dialogue, Temple University
Leonard is a Professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue in the Religion Department of Temple University, where he has taught since 1966. At Temple, and as a visiting professor at universities around the world – including Graz, Austria; Tübingen, Germany; Fudan University, Shanghai;...
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....
SAMIRA LUKA
Senior Director for Dialogue, Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS)
Member, National Council for Women, Cairo Branch
Member, Board of Trustees,"Bat Elaala"
Samira Luka serves as Senior Director for Dialogue in CEOSS (Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services), a non-governmental organization dedicated to social and cultural development, social justice and inter-religious dialogue in Egypt. Samira works at the international level, as well as...
ARCHBISHOP FELIX ANTHONY MACHADO
Archbishop, Catholic Diocese of Vasai
Archbishop Felix Anthony Machado was born on June 6, 1948 in Remedy in Vasai Diocese. He was ordained a priest in October of 1976 in the Archdiocese of Bombay. In May 1998 he was incardinated in the Diocese of Vasai. He was appointed as the Archbishop of Nashik in January 2008 and was ordained in Ma...
PROF. KATHERINE MARSHALL
Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue
Senior Fellow, Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Katherine Marshall is one of the founders and currently the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue. She is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, where she manages work on religion and global development, as well as holding a professor posi...
REV. DR. ANDREA ZAKI STEPHANOUS
General Director, Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS)
President, Protestant Churches of Egypt
Rev. Dr. Andrea Zaki Stephanous, born 1960, is General Director of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services and President of the Protestant churches of Egypt. After receiving his Bachelor of Theology from Cairo Evangelical Seminary, Cairo, Egypt in 1983, he went to Coady International...