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.
HIS EXCELLENCY SHAYKH ‘ABDALLAH BIN BAYYAH
President, Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies
Chairman, United Arab Emirates Fatwa Council
Co-Moderator and Executive Committee Member, Religions for Peace (RfP)
Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah was born in 1935 in the East of Mauritania. He is a scholar who grew up in a house known for its scholarship; his father Shaykh Mahfoudh Ben Bayah, may God have mercy on him, was one of the region’s eminent scholars and the head of the Conference of Mauritanian Scholars ...
MARY BRAYBROOKE
Vice-President, World Congress of Faiths
Member of Fellowship of Reconciliation, United Religions Initiative; Faith and Belief Forum; Peace Council; Council of Christians and Jews
Wise Woman, Brahma Kumaris
A Vice-President of the World Congress of Faiths, Mary Braybrooke has been part of this organization for over fifty years. She grew up as a Methodist and Unitarian and is now an Anglican and has been a member of the Oxford Diocesan Synod. She has always enjoyed interfaith services. Braybrooke has ...
Katharina von Schnurbein
Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism, European Commission
In December 2015, Katharina von Schnurbein, a German national, was appointed the first European Commission Coordinator on combating Antisemitism. Before, she was an advisor to Commission President José Manuel Barroso on the Commission's dialogue with Churches, religions, philosophical and non-c...
REV. DR. MARCUS BRAYBROOKE
Joint President, World Congress of Faiths
Co-Founder, Faith and Belief Forum (formerly the Three Faiths Forum)
Marcus Braybrooke is a retired Anglican parish priest. He and his wife Mary, a social worker, have been interfaith and peace activists for fifty years. He joined the World Congress of Faiths in 1964 and is now Joint-President. He was Director of the Council of Christians and Jews (1984-7), Inte...
Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zakzouk
Member, Senior Scholar Council of Al Azhar
Mahmoud Hamdi Zakzouk, born in Dakahlia on 27 December 1933, is an Egyptian academic and politician. He is a professor of philosophy and teaches philosophy at his alma mater, Al Azhar University. He is the Egypt's former minister of religious endowment which he held from 1996 to 2011. He obtaine...
HIS GRACE DR. LUIGI BRESSAN
Former Archbishop of Trento, R.C. Archdiocese of Trento
His Grace, Archbishop Luigi Bressan, was born in 1940 in Trento (Italy) and was ordained Priest in 1964 and Bishop in 1989, promoted as Archbishop of Trento in 1999. He resigned because of age in 2016 and was appointed National Assistant of two Italian Associations dealing with development project...
HIS EXCELLENCY ARCHIMANDRITE PHILARET BULEKOV
Vice Chairman, Department for External Church Relations, Moscow Patriarchate, Russian Orthodox Church
Chairman, Chair of External Church Relations and Social Sciences, Ss Cyril and Methodius School of Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies
Co-President, Religions for Peace (RfP)
Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov) was born in 1967 in Moscow and studied at the Moscow State University and then at the Moscow Theological Academy, graduating with a Candidate of Theology degree and a thesis on the Maronite Church. He served in the Department of External Church Relations and in the R...
GRAND MUFTI OF BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA MUSTAFA CERIC
President, World Bosniak Congress
Co-founder, Interreligious Council of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Co-founder, Executive Committee, European Council of Religious Leaders
Co-founder, International Commission for Peace Research, UNESCO
Dr. Mustafa Ceric has served as the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1999. Ceric was educated at al-Azhar University in Cairo and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He served as the Imam of the Islamic Center of Zagreb in Croatia, and later of the Islamic Cultural Center in ...
REV. PROF. DR. FADI DAOU
Co-Founder and President, Adyan Foundation
Born in 1971 in Lebanon, Fadi Daou is currently the Chairperson and CEO of Adyan Foundation, where he contributes, in Lebanon and internationally, to the promotion of coexistence, interfaith relations and inclusive citizenship. Adyan’s successful work was recognized in 2018 by receiving the Niwan...
DR. HANI DAWAH
Deputy Senior Media Advisor, Grand Mufti of Egypt
Hani Dawah is the current Deputy of the Senior Media Advisor to the Grand Mufti of Egypt. He is a 2017 International Fellow of KAICIID, Vienna; a member of the Interreligious Platform for Dialogue and Cooperation in the Arab World, as Representative of the Grand Mufti of Egypt, and an incumbent...