

OUR GUESTS
Andrea Bartoli
President of the Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue
An international conflict resolution expert who has served in key positions for more than three decades.
Deborah Dash Moore
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies
Deborah Dash Moore is the former director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies.
Jahirul Haque
Vice Chancellor
Professor H M Jahirul Haque is presently serving at the Canadian University of Bangladesh as Vice Chancellor.
Joseph Levitan
Assistant Professor
Dr. Levitan is an assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. His research interests include leadership, teaching, and policy for social justice in education.
Karen Gazith
Lecturer and Dean of Academics
Dr. Karen Gazith received her Ph.D. from McGill University in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and is currently a faculty lecturer in the Department.
Matthew Lee
Architect and Artist
As a grandson of a tailor and a son of a watchmaker, Matthew Lee was brought up with the sensitivity of an artist and the skillfulness of a craftsman.
Noomane Raboudi
Associate Professor
Dr. Noomane Raboudi is an islamologue-politologue. His PhD is in modern and contemporary Arabic and Islamic studies. He is a professor in the school of political science at the University of Ottawa.
Reuben Joshua Poupko
Rabbi
Rabbi Reuben Joshua Poupko is the Rabbi of Beth Israel Beth Aaron Congregation, an Orthodox synagogue in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Sisir Dutta
Executive Director
Founder & Executive Director of the Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts (BITA).
Vern Neufeld Redekop
Professor Emeritus
Prof. Dr. Neufeld Redekop is a world-renown scholar in Peace and Conflict Studies, he is Emeritus Professor at St. Paul University, Ottawa, Canada, where he worked since 2001.
Arvind Sharma
Birks Professor of Comparative Religion
Worldreknown in the fields of comparative religion, Hinduism, Indian philosophy and ethics, and the role of women in religion.
Douglas Bryce Farrow
Professor of Theology & Christian Thought
Douglas Farrow is Professor of Theology and Christian Thought at McGill University in Montreal. He taught formerly at King’s College London alongside his Doktorvader, the late Colin Gunton.
Jamal Alsharif
MD & Development Worker
Dr. Jamal Alsharif holds a PhD in Oral Maxillofacial Surgery. He is a global citizen & inspirational speaker and the founder and president of Humans for Peace Institution.
Ken Fraser
Writer, Analyst, and Lecturer
Dr. Fraser teaches international relations for many years at the Australian National University and the University of Sidney (among others), he is an analyst, writer, and prolific lecturer.
Monjur Chowdhury
Teacher & social entrepreneur
Dr. Monjur Chowdhury is a math and science teacher and social entrepreneur.
Quentin "Q" Heggs
Standup Comedian
A master of dialects and facial expressions, comedian Quentin Heggs has left folks rolling in the aisles for over 3 decades. "Q" has traveled around the world , opening up for such acts as Regin Philbin, Boyz II Men, Rosie O'Donnel, and Tommy Davidson. He has also warmed up studio audiences for shows featured on Comedy Central, ABC, ESPN, HBO, and the Game Show Network. This talented funny man should NOT be missed!
Richard Koestner
Professor of Psychology
World reknown, Dr. Koestner conducts research on goal-setting, self-regulation and internalization processes. Broad questions of interest include: How do individuals motivate themselves to pursue valued goals? and How do they determine which goals and guidelines to internalize from their social-cultural surroundings?
Stanley Uche Anozie
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Prof. Dr. Stanley Uche Anozie is a prolific writer and teaches philosophy in addressing contemporary philosophical/ethical/religious studies’ issues from a cosmopolitan and multicultural perspective.
Francis X. Clooney, S.J
Parkman Professor of Divinity
A fellow of the British Academy, Francis X. Clooney, S.J. is the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard University.
Joachim Ostermann
PhD, OFM
Joachim Ostermann, OFM, earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and then beame a postdoctoral fellow at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York City.
Justin (Hüstin) Laku, Sr.
Development & Conflict Analyst
A conflict & development analyst, Justin was a member staff of the United Nations mission in Iraq and Sudan and a former advisor to the Canadian Secretary of State.
Liz Jackson
Professor of Education
Liz Jackson is Professor of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. She is also the former Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre.
Neil D. Theise
Physician-scientist, anatomist, and philosopher
Neil Theise is a physician-scientist, anatomist, and philosopher. He is Professor of Pathology at New York University School of Medicine and attending physician at NYU Langone Health. Theise is considered a global thought leader, and has extended his work to areas of theoretical biology, defining a “post-modern biology.”
Ratna Ghosh
Professor of Education
Dr. Ratna Ghosh is Distinguished James McGill Professor and Sir W.C. Macdonald Professor of Education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She has been leading a research team at the Faculty of Education in McGill University named Preventing Extremism through Educational research (PEER).
Robert Louis
Researcher
Beside attending Harvard Medical School, Postgraduate Medical Education in Clinical research, Dr. Robert Louis (Also known as Edmond Robert Louis) is a Canadian, Resilience scholar and professor.
Susan Korah
Journalist
Susan Korah is an award-winning journalist, writer, editor, public speaker, master wordsmith, world traveler, focus on human rights, freedom of religion and expression.