• Dr Anne Primavesi

    Anne is internationally one of the leading figures in environmental theology. Her first research project with Lokahi will ask, ‘how best do we experience and then express our embodied relationships with and within the whole community of life on earth?’, examining the contrasting approaches of science and religion.

    http://www.westarinstitute.org/Fellows/Primavesi/primavesi.html

  • Dr Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

    Chakravarthi has a scholarly background in the study of Hindu life and beliefs, which he combines with a range of interests in global and comparative studies, religion and politics. His current interests include the understanding of political and public religion in the world today.

    http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/religstudies/profiles/487/15/

  • Prof Tariq Ramadan

    Tariq is one of Islam’s leading public intellectuals who was listed by Time magazine in 2000 as one of the seven most innovative spiritual leaders of the 21st century, and as one of the 100 most influential people of the year in 2004. His intellectual interests are in the interpretation of Western and European Islam and its future directions.

    http://www.tariqramadan.com

  • Prof David-Hillel Ruben

    David-Hillel has a BA (Dartmouth College) in philosophy and Religion, and a PhD in Philosophy (Harvard University). He has taught philosophy in UK universities since 1969, and was Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics (1983-1998). He was Director of the London School of Jewish Studies 1998-2000, and since then has serviced as Director of New York University in London and Professor of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London.

    http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dhr1/

  • Prof Richard Sorabji

    Richard is one of Britain’s most distinguished philosophers, who has made an outstanding contribution to our understanding of ancient philosophy and the intellectual origins of Christianity and early Islamic philosophy. He also engages with contemporary issues, considering the philosophies of different cultural and religious traditions.

    http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfop0008/

  • Prof Arindam Chakrabarti

    Arindam combines a background in intensive traditional Hindu scholarship and Western analytical philosophy. He brings an extraordinary ability to work across the traditions of India and the West to address questions of belief and human existence.

    http://www.hawaii.edu/csas/faculty/achakrabarti.html

  • Prof Chung-ying Cheng

    Chung-ying is an internationally renowned scholar in Chinese religion and philosophy, and is highly regarded for his comparative work on the thought of East and West. His distinctive contributions have included engagement with contemporary issues such as attitudes towards environmental issues derived from Chinese thought, and he is also the first philosopher to develop a philosophy of management and business ethics based on integration of seven classical Chinese philosophies.