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.
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...
DR. EBRAHIM SADRUDDIN PATEL
Founder and President, Interfaith America
Eboo Patel was named by US News & World Report one of America's Best Leaders of 2009. Eboo Patel is the Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a Chicago-based organization building the field of interfaith leadership. Author of the books Acts of Faith, which won the Louisville...
DR. MARIA REIS HABITO
International Program Director, Museum of World Religions, Taipei, Taiwan
Officer, Global Family for Love and Peace (GFLP)
Director, Elijah Interfaith Institute, USA
Board Member, Museum of World Religions, UK
Maria Reis Habito is the International Program Director of the Museum of World Religions, the Director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute USA, and a Zen Teacher authorized in the Sanbo Zen lineage. She has lived in Taiwan and studied the Chinese language (1979-1981), and in Kyoto, Japan, where she s...
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...
ASSOC. PROF. DR. IMTIYAZ YUSUF
Associate Professor, The International Institute of Islamic Civilisation and Malay World, Malaysia
Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean for Students Development and Community Engagement and also Coordinator, Islam and Buddhism Programme at The International Institute of Islamic Civilisation and Malay World (ISTAC-IIUM), Malaysia. Dr. Yusuf is also a Senior Fellow at the Prince...
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...
DR. CHARLES C. HAYNES
Vice president, Newseum Institute
Executive director, Religious Freedom Center
Dr. Charles C. Haynes is vice president of the Newseum Institute, founding director of the Religious Freedom Center and a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center. He writes and speaks extensively on religious liberty and religion in American public life. Haynes is best known for his work on Fir...