Speakers & Panelists for G20 IF 2019
Keynote Speakers
Her Excellency Graça Machel
Stateswoman, First Education Minister of Mozambique; International advocate for women’s rights and child welfare
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Greeting Remarks
Dr Haruhisa Handa
Forum Patron, Chairman, Worldwide Support for Development, Trustee World Faiths Development Dialogue
Katherine Marshall
Senior Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University; Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD)
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W. Cole Durham
Founding Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
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Faisal bin Muaammar
Founding Secretary General, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID)
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Kōichi Hagiuda
Member of the House of Representatives; Executive Acting Secretary-General, LDP
Katsuei Hirasawa
Member of the House of Representatives; Acting Chairperson of General Council, LDP
Messages to the Forum from Religious Leaders
Message to the Forum from His Holiness Pope Francis, read by The Most Reverend Joseph Chennoth, Apostolic Nuncio to Japan
Video Message from
His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople—New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch
Main Speakers and Panelists
Mohamad Abou Zeid
Senior Judge, Family Court of Saida [Sidon] in Lebanon
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Senior Advisor, KAICIID; Member G20 Interfaith Forum Organizing Committee
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Brian Adams
Director, Centre for Interfaith & Cultural Dialogue, Griffith University; Founding Committee Member, G20 Inferfaith Forum
Osama Al Azhari
Inter-Parliamentary Union; Member of Egyptian Parliament; Professor at Al Azhar University
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James Alexander
Policy Advisor, US State Department Office of Religon and Global Affairs
Raymond Ambray
Environmental advocate, human rights activist, Catholic priest Diocese of Tandag, Philippines
Bernard Timothy Appau
Asian Rural Institute; Pastor, All African Baptist Fellowship
Judd Birdsall
Managing Director, Cambridge Institute on Relgion & International Studies
Jasmina Bosto
External Relations Officer, (KAICIID)
Denise Coghlan RSM
Leads Jesuit Refugee Service Cambodia; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate,
Somboon Chungprampree
Executive Secretary, International Network of Engaged Buddhists
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Xin Hui Chan
Clinical Research Fellow, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU)
James T. Christie
Professor of Whole World Ecumenism and Dialogue Theology, University of
Winnipeg; G20 Interfaith Forum Organizing Committee
David Cohen
Director, WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University
PL de Silva
Director, Institute for Strategic Studies and Democracy (ISSD) Malta
Bani Dugal
Principal Representative at the United Nations (New York) for the Bahá’í International Community
Ganoune Diop
Director Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, Seventh-day Adventist Church; General Secretary, International Religious Liberty Association
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Sharon Eubank
President, Latter-day Saint Charities; Presidency, Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mahmood Fawzy
Vice-President, State Council of Egypt, and Head of the legislative research unit of the IPU-UNODC-UNOCT
Ján Figeľ
Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief outside the EU
Séamus Finn
Chair of the Board, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), OIP Investment Trust
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Fletcher Harper
Executive Director, GreenFaith; Global Steering Committee, Interfaith Rainforest Initiative
Kevin Hyland
Ireland’s elected member, Council of Europe Independent Group of Experts for Trafficking
Christian Morimoto Hermansen
Professor, School of Law and Politics, Kwansei Gakuin University
Mokhtar Omar Ibrahim
Ambassador, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Middle East Roundtable
Elizabeta Kitanovic
Executive Secretary, Conference of European Churches
Joshtrom Kureethadam
Coordinator of “Ecology and Creation”, Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
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Thomas Lawo
Asher Maoz
Dean, Peres Academic Center Law School; G20 Interfaith Forum Organizing Committee
Mari Miura
Professor, Law Faculty, Sophia University, Tokyo; Carnegie Pacific Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
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John McCarthy QC
Former Australian Ambassador to the Vatican; Chairman, Sydney Archdiocese Antislavery Working Group
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Paul Morris
UNESCO Chair in Interreligious
Understanding and Relations in New Zealand and the Pacific
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Daniela Muhaj
Research Fellow, Center for International Development Growth Lab, Harvard University
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Hisae Nakanishi
Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University Japan
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Dan Moynihan
Young Leaders Mentoring Program Coordinator, Sports at the Service of Humanity
Juan G. Navarro Floria
Law Professor, PUC Argentina; Past President, Latin American Consortium for Religious Liberty
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Ishmael Noko
Founder and President, Interfaith Action for Peace in Africa, Former General Secretary, Lutheran World Federation
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Liviu Olteanu
Secretary General, International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty (IADRL/AIDLR)
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Yutaka Osakabe
Faith & Engagement Coordinator, World Vision Japan
Norberto Padilla
President, Latin American Consortium for Religious Liberty; Member, G20 Interfaith Forum Organizing Committee
Peter Petkoff
Director, Religion, Law, & Int’l Relations Programme, Regents Park College, Oxford; Brunel Law School
Miguel Ángel Schiavone
Rector, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina Santa María de los Buenos Aires
Raúl Scialabba
President, Argentine Council for Religious Liberty (CALIR); G20 Interfaith Forum
Organizing Committee
Sherrie Steiner
Assistant Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne; G20 Interfaith Forum Special Rapporteur
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Dicky Sofjan
Core Doctoral Faculty in the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies
Rabbi Carlos Tapiero
Deputy-Director General and the Director of Education, Maccabi World Union
Yoshiaki Terumichi
Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology and 16th President of Sophia University
Rick Torfs
Former Member, Belgian Senate; Chairman, Faculty of Canon Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Kim Linh Tran
Fridays for Future Core Member
Marco Ventura
Director, Centre for Religious Studies, Fondazione Bruno Kessler; Prof. of Law and Religion, University of Siena
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Minori Watanabe
Co-founder of Fridays for Future Tokyo
Naoto Yoshikawa
Former President, Hawaii Tokai International College; Professor, Deparment of International Studies, Tokai University
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Michael Young
President, Texas A&M University, Former Chair, US Commission on International Religious Freedom
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Xinping Zhuo
Director, Professor, Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Xiayoun Zheng
Deputy Director, Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences
Maria Luisa Marella-Sulit
General Manager, Programs and Communications, Sport at the Service of Humanity
Shahid Bishara
Sport at the Service of Humanity Delegate
John Paul Masubay
Sport at the Service of Humanity Delegate
Martin Rotjkes
Sport at the Service of Humanity Delegate
Mpai Tshidisegang Tshwaro Rampou
Sport at the Service of Humanity Delegate
Chantal Sathi
Sport at the Service of Humanity Delegate
Chen-Sheng Hong
Resident WSD-Handa Fellow, Pacific Forum
Yuki Moritani
Master’s Student, Hitotsubashi University
Nicholas Rachmat
Graduate Student, Kyoto University School of Management
Wrenn Yennie Lundgren
Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)