The World Faiths Development Dialogue welcomes six new trustees to its Board: Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Dr. John J. DeGioia, Rt. Rev. Bishop John Chane, Count Giovanni Auletta, Sir Timothy Lankester, and Ms. Jacqueline Ogega. The decision was approved at the October 30, 2007 meeting of the Board of Trustees.
His Eminence Theodore Cardinal McCarrick was installed as Catholic Archbishop of Washington in January 2001 and elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II the next month. As Cardinal, he has visited many nations as a human rights advocate and in 2000 the president of the United States presented him with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights.
Dr. John J. DeGioia was selected as president of Georgetown University in July 2001. During his tenure, he has been committed to faith-inspired dialogue and pioneered new ways for universities to engage with religious institutions in developing countries.
The Right Reverend John Bryson Chane, D.D., was consecrated as the Eighth Bishop of Washington in June 2002. Throughout his tenure, Rev. Chane has been active in projects addressing low-income housing needs, public education reform, poverty, and health care reform issues.
Count Giovanni Auletta is a well-known philanthropist and a successful businessman and banker in Italy. In 1996, he founded the Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation, which aims to establish multidisciplinary research to support leading scientists at Harvard Medical School and at prominent scientific institutions in Italy.
Sir Timothy Lankester is President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Previously, he was Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London. He is also Chairman of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is the UK Governor for the Asia-Europe Foundation.
Ms. Jacqueline Ogega is the Director of the Womenâs Program at the World Conference of Religions for Peace. She has extensive experience in gender, peace-building and development programming. Prior to her current position, she served as the African Womenâs Project Director at Religions for Peace in Africa, where she established the African Women of Faith Network, a fundamental infrastructure for building multi-religious cooperation for action in Africa.