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Edward Kessler
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Edward Kessler, MBE, is founder president of the Woolf Institute and a leading thinker in interfaith relations—primarily Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations—as well as chair of the Commission on the Integration of Refugees. He founded the Woolf Institute in 1998 and was elected fellow of St. Edmund's College in 2002; Kessler was described by The Times Higher Education Supplement (London) as "probably the most prolific interfaith figure in British academia" and was awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to interfaith relations. He has written or edited 13 books, including A Documentary History of Jewish-Christian Relations: From Antiquity to the Present Day (2024). In 2024 he was awarded the Seelisberg Prize for his contribution to fostering Jewish-Christian relations.