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.
MAULANA WAHIDUDIN KHAN
Founder, Centre for Peace and Spirituality International
Board Member, Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is an Islamic scholar who has dedicated his life to Islamic scholarship and teachings in the modern era. He is founder of the Centre for Peace and Spirituality International and India’s Urdu Islamic Institution, the Islamic Centre, which preaches religious awareness, social...
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...
MAQSOUD KRUSE
Executive Director, Hedayah Centre
Maqsoud Kruse has been the Executive Director of Hedayah, The International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism, since its founding in December 2012. He is also a Steering Board Member of the Policy, Think and Do Tanks Constituency for the Global Community Engagement and Resilience...
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 ...
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....
SIS. LOH PAI LING
President, Buddhist Missionary Society Malaysia
Chairman, Standing Committee of Interfaith Dialogue, World Fellowship of Buddhists
Vice-Chairman, International Association of Liberal Religious Women, Malaysia Chapter (Protem)
Member, Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism
Loh Pai Ling or fondly known as Sister Pai Ling is a lawyer by training, graduated with a LLB degree from the University of London (External), with a Master Degree in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Hull, UK. Sis. Pai Ling has been serving with Buddhist Missionary Society M...
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...