Joseph Abou Nohra
PhD in Modern and Contemporary History of Lebanon. Professor Emeritus and former Dean at the Lebanese University. Author of Les Moines et l'Histoire Rurale du Liban (1710–1960).
Huibert van Beek
Committed Reformed layperson in the ecumenical movement. Served in Madagascar within the missionary movement. Former Head of Church Relations at the World Council of Churches (WCC) for over twenty years. Founder of the Global Christian Forum (2000). Author and co-author of works on this new ecumenical gathering including new Evangelical and Charismatic Churches and communities.
Frans Bouwen
White Father (Missionary of Africa). Licentiate in Oriental Sciences from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. Director and Editor-in-Chief of the journal POC (1969–2014). Member of several regional and international ecumenical theological commissions, notably the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, the Joint Commission for Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Faith and Order Commission of the WCC.
Christian Cannuyer
PhD in Egyptology. Coptologist and historian of religions. Professor at the Faculty of Theology, Université Catholique de Lille. President of the Belgian Society for Oriental Studies. Specialist in the history of the Coptic Church and the current affairs of Middle Eastern Christians. Executive Administrator of the association Solidarité-Orient and editor of its quarterly Bulletin.
Pietro Francesco Coda
Full Professor of Trinitarian Ontology at Sophia University Institute, Loppiano (Florence, Italy). Secretary General of the International Theological Commission.
Ameer Jaje
Iraqi Dominican. PhD in Theology. Member of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO – Cairo). Professor of Theology at Domuni University, founder of its Arabic section (2014). Consultor to the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue at the Vatican. Director of the Dominican Academy of Baghdad for the Humanities.
Assaad Kattan
Orthodox lay theologian. Professor at the University of Marburg (Germany). Chair of Orthodox Theology at the Center for Religious Studies, University of Münster (Germany) since 2005. Former Professor at the University of Balamand, Lebanon (2001–2004). Engaged in hermeneutics and Christian-Muslim dialogue. Member of the Saint Irenaeus Ecumenical Working Group.
Mirna Mzawak
PhD in Social Sciences from USEK. Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and lecturer at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology at USEK. Director of the IDEES Research Laboratory. Coordinator of the Women's Pastoral Office at the Patriarchal Curia of the Maronite Church – Bkerke and of the Synod on Women.
Emmanuel Pisani
Dominican. Professor attached to the Vice-Rectorate for Research at the Catholic Institute of Paris. Director of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (Cairo).
Harald Suermann
Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn (Germany), and at the Institute for Catholic Theology, Aachen. Former Director of the Institute for Missiology, Aachen. Recognized specialist in Eastern Catholics in Asia and the Middle East. Author of numerous studies and articles in this field.
Robert Turner
PhD in Theology from the Catholic University of Louvain (2001), specialized in the theological thought of John Zizioulas. Licentiate in Canon Law from UCL – Leuven. Member of the theological commission between the Catholic Church and the Disciples of Christ.
Chantal Verdeil
University Professor in Contemporary History of the Arab World at Inalco, Department of Arabic Studies, CERMOM (Center for Research on the Middle East and the Mediterranean).
Dany Younès, S.J.
Former Provincial of the Jesuits in the Near East and North Africa. PhD in Spiritual Theology. Director of the Jesuit publishing house in the Near East, "Dar El Machreq".