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.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW DISHANI JAYAWEERA
Co-Founder, Directress, Programme Designer and Strategist, Center for Peace Building and Reconciliation (CPBR)
Dishani Jayaweera is the directress, programme designer and strategist of the Centre for Peacebuilding and Reconciliation(CPBR). Recognizing her work in peace-building, she received the Peacemaker in Action award by Tanenbaum Network- USA in 2012, and became the 2nd runner-up of the Annual ‘Coexi...
Dr. Sayyed Jawad Mohammed Taqi Al-Khoei
Secretary General, Al-Khoei Institute
Co-Founder, Iraqi Council for Interfaith Dialogue (ICID)
UNESCO Chair, Development of Interreligious Dialogue Studies in the Islamic World at the University of Kufa
Dr. Sayyed Jawad Mohammed Taqi Al-Khoei is the Secretary-General of the Al-Khoei Institute in Najaf, Iraq, a pioneering centre that combines a traditional Islamic seminary with a contemporary interfaith academy. He was born in December 1980, in Najaf into the family of the spiritual leader for Shia ...
PROF. DR. DIN SYAMSUDDIN
Professor, National Islamic University Indonesia
Former President, Muhammadiyah
Din Syamsuddin is a Professor on Islamic Political Thought at National Islamic University, Jakarta. Currently he is acting as Special Envoy of the President of Republic of Indonesia for Interfaith and Intercivilizational Dialogue and Cooperation. He was President of Muhammadiyah, from 2005 to 2015, ...
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...
STEVE KILLELEA
Founder and Executive Chairman, Institute for Economics and Peace
Honorary President, Religions for Peace (RfP)
After establishing himself as a successful entrepreneur in software and technology, Steve Killelea became prominent in philanthropic work centered around sustainable development and peace. His first company, Integrated Research Ltd (IR), focused on payments software and performance management for b...
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...
RABBI JOSEPH LEVI
President, Florence School of Advances Studies for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue
Director of Shemah, School for Jewish Studies and culture, Margulies Levinas, Florence
Professor, Cardinal Bea Center for Judaic Studies, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
Former President , Rabbis for Human Rights, Israel (1993-1996)
Member, European Rabbinical Conference
Rabbi, scholar of Jewish thought. Professor of Jewish Philosophy of the Renaissance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the Center for Studies on the Renaissance and the University of Siena. Since 2006 he has been teaching Jewish Thought and History of the Jewish Liturgy at the Bea Center ...
PROF. DR. AMY-JILL LEVINE
University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University
Mary Jane Werthan Professor, Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt Divinity School
Professor, Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences
Affiliated Professor, Woolf Institute: Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge
Amy-Jill Levine (B.A. Smith College; M.A./Ph.D. Duke University) is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies, and Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Graduate Department of Religion, and College of Arts and ...