Hadi Adanali is currently Assistant Professor at the Divinity School of Ankara
University in Turkey. He has taught at various universities including Ankara
University, Bilkent University, and Gregorian University. His specialty is Islamic
Philosophy and Theology.

Wenko Chan teaches at National Tong-Shi Vocational School in Taichung County,
Taiwan. He is also working on a Ph.D. comparing citizenship education in the U.K.
with the new 'Life Education' program in Taiwan.

David Chidester is Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa at the University of Cape Town. He is the
author or editor of fifteen books in the study of religion, including Religions of South
Africa, Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa,
and Christianity: A Global History.

Bruce Grelle is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Religion and Public Education Resource Center at California State University, Chico. He was co-editor (with Sumner B. Twiss) of Explorations in Global Ethics: Comparative Religious
Ethics and Inter-religious Dialogue. He serves on the American Academy of
Religion's "Religion in the Schools" Task Force.

John M Hull is Professor of Religious Education at the University of Birmingham,
England. His most recent books are Glaube und Bildung, Utopian Whispers: Moral,
Religious and Spiritual Values in Schools, and In the Beginning There was Darkness.

Fedor Kozyrev is the Director of the Centre for Religious Pedagogy in St. Petersburg.He delivers lectures at the A.I. Herzen State Pedagogical University and the Russian Christian Humanitarian Institute. He is the author of several books on popular theology including, Iskushenie i pobeda sviatogo Iova and Poedinok Iakova.

B Aisha Lemu is Director General of the Islamic Education Trust (IET) in Niger State, Nigeria. The IET runs several schools where various aspects of faith-based education are under experiment. Ms. Lemu is also the author of a number of textbooks on Islamic Studies which are widely used in Nigerian schools.

Shu-Sum Ng is Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Education at National Taiwan Normal University. He is also an active member of the working committee for the 'Life Education' program at the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.

Norman Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Stranmillis University College, Belfast. He has over a decade of experience in joint Catholic-Protestant programs of education and is also Secretary of the Northern Ireland Inter-Faith Forum and a member of the Corrymeela Community.

Graham Rossiter is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Religious
Education at Australian Catholic University in Sydney. He is also director of the
Cardinal Clancy Centre for Research in the Spiritual, Moral, Religious, and Pastoral
Dimensions of Education. He has published a number of books on religious
education.

Paul E Sigmund is Professor of Politics at Princeton University where he specializes in political theory and Latin American politics. He has taught at Harvard University, Bryn Mawr, and universities in Ghana, and Chile. He has written or edited 19 books, the most recent of which are Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America and Chile, 1973-1998: The Coup and its Consequences.

John Taylor taught Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham, England. He has also served as Director of the World Council of Church's program on "Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies" and as Secretary General of the World
Conference on Religion and Peace. He presently represents the International
Association for Religious Freedom at the UN's Geneva office.