Leadership
Guided by over 100 leaders
representing the world’s faith communities.
Religions for Peace International Trustees & Ambassadors assist the World Council to advance our mission through partnership development, expertise, resource mobilisation, and identification and solicitation of funding opportunities. See their Terms of Reference.
International Trustees
Mr. Robert Boisture
President and CEO, The Fetzer Institute; Treasurer, Religions for Peace
United States
Mr. Charanjit Singh Hayer
Chairman, Hayer Group of Companies; International Trustee of Religions for Peace
Kenya
Rev. Keiji Kunitomi
Chair of Board of Trustees, Rissho Kosei-kai; International Trustee, Religions for Peace
Buddhist, Japan
Mr. Steve Killelea
Founder and Executive Chairman, Integrated Research LTD. Charitable Foundation; Institute for Economics and Peace; Honorary President, Religions for Peace
Australia
Mr. Abdul Ilah Rafie Marafie
Chief Patron Trustee, Marafie Foundation; International Trustee, Religions for Peace
Kuwait
Rev. Keishi Miyamoto
Representative, Arigatou Foundation; International Trustee, Religions for Peace
Japan
Dr. Aruna Oswal
Chairperson, Abhey Oswal Group & Aruna Abhey Oswal Trust; Vice President, World Jain Confederation; Boardmember, PHD Family Welfare Foundation; Trustee, Loomba Foundation; Chairperson, Indian Council for Human Relations; Co-President and International Trustee, Religions for Peace
Jain, India
Rev. Norio Sakai
Founder, Japanese Trustees’ Group; International Trustee, Religions for Peace
Japan
Prof. em. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Schürer
Chairman, Foundation Peace Dialogue of the World Religions and Civil Society; Honorary President and Trustee, Religions for Peace
Christian, Germany
H.E. Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh
Chairman, Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha; Co-President and Trustee, Religions for Peace
Sikh, United Kingdom
Mr. Tsunetaka Tanaka
President, Japanese Trustees’ Group, International Trustee, Religions for Peace
Japan
Dr. Nianbo Wu
Founder and Chairman, Suzhou Good-Ark Electronics LTD; International Trustee, Religions for Peace
China
International Ambassadors
Mr. Helio Fred Garcia
Brazil
President, Logos Consulting Group; Executive Director of the Logos Institute for Crisis Management & Executive Leadership; Religions for Peace Ambassador
H.E. Dr. Kul Chandra Gautam
Former Assistant Secretary General, United Nations; Ambassador, Religions for Peace
Nepal
Ms. Audrey Kitagawa
President/Founder of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation; President of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family; Ambassador, Religions for Peace
United States
Commissioner M. Christine MacMillan
Senior Advisor, WEA UN Mission; Chair, Micah Global; Ambassador, Religions for Peace
Canada
Ms. Maddalena Maltese
Director of Communications, International Secretariat
Dr. Katherine Marshall
Senior Fellow, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs Professor of the practice of development, conflict, and religion, Walsh School of Foreign Service
Religions for Peace Ambassador
Dr. Reham Abdullah Salamah Nasr
General Director, Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism
Imam Dr. Sayed Ali Abbas Razawi
Director-General and Chief Imam, Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society; Associate, Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs; International Ambassador, Religions for Peace
Muslim, Scotland
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs
Director, Center for Sustainable Development; Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General on the Sustainable Development Goals; Ambassador, Religions for Peace
United States
Joumana Silyan-Saba
Director of Policy and Discrimination Enforcement, Los Angeles City Civil and Human Rights and Equity Department (LA Civil Rights)
United States
