Our Advisory Council
G20 Interfaith Association Advisory Council
Prof. Mohammed Abu-Nimer | Washington, D.C.
President, Salam Institute for Peace and Justice
Dr. Brian J. Adams | Australia
Director, Centre for Interfaith & Cultural Dialogue, Griffith University
Prof. Cristina Calvo | Argentina
Director, International Program on Democracy, Society, and New Economies, University of Buenos Aires
Founder, Coyle Communications Former Executive Director, World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy Washington, DC
Dr. Ganoune Diop | United States
Director, Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, Seventh-day Adventist Church
Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr. | United States
Professor of Law and Founding Director,
International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University Law School
Prof. Alessandro Ferrari | Italy
Associate Professor,
Department of Law, Economy and Cultures at Insubria University (Como and Varese)
Prof. Juan G. Navarro Floria | Argentina
Professor of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
Prof. Marie-Claire Foblets | Germany
Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon
Ecumenical Patriarchate; Vice President of the Conference of European Churches
Chairman, Worldwide Support for Development, Japan; Patron, G20 Interfaith Forum
President/Founder of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation, President of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family
Dr. Elizabeta Kitanovic | Belgium
Executive Secretary for Human Rights of Conference of European Churches in Brussels.
Prof. Katherine Marshall | United States
Professory and Senior Fellow; Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue at Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University
Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace, University of Bologna
G20 Interfaith Forum Organizing Committee; Director, International Shinto Foundation (for Dr. Haruhisa Handa)
Dr. Peter Petkoff | United Kingdom
Director of Religion, Law and International Relations Programme at Regents Park College, Oxford and Brunel Law School
Humberto Martin Shikiya | Argentina
Director General for at the Center for Reflection and Social Action (CREAS)
Spiritual Leader and Practicing Hindu Priest at Ram Mandir in Mississauga, attending to a community of over 5000 families.
Dr. Sherrie Steiner | United States
G20 Historian, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Christina Tobias-Nahi | United States
Director of Communications & Public Affairs, Islamic Relief USA
Deputy Director, Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences