BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE OF
PARTICIPANTS AND CONTRIBUTORS 

IAC MEMBERS

Jean Chrétien, Co-Chairman
Prime Minister of Canada 1993-2003
Born 1934. LL.L. Laval University 1958; Minister Without Portfolio 1967-68; Minister of National Revenue 1968; Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development 1968-74; Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce 1976-77; Minister of Finance 1977-79; Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Minister of State for Social Development, Minister responsible for constitutional negotiations 1980-82; Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources 1982-84; Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for External Affairs 1984 

Franz Vranitzky, Co-Chairman
Chancellor of Austria 1986-97
Born 1937. Doctorate in Business Studies, Vienna University of Business and Economics 1969; Minister of Finance 1984-86; Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria 1988-97 and one of the Vice Presidents of Socialist International

Helmut Schmidt, Honorary Chairman
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany 1974-82
Born 1918. M.Sci., Hamburg University; Chairman, Social Democratic Party (SPD) Faction in Bundestag 1967-69, Vice-Chairman, SPD 1968-84; Senator (Minister) for Domestic Affairs in Hamburg 1961- 65; Minister of Defence 1969-72; Minister for Economics and Finance 1972; Minister of Finance 1972-74 
 
Malcolm Fraser, Honorary Chairman
Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia 1975-83
Born 1930. MA, Oxford University, Member of Parliament 1955-83; Minister for the Army 1966-68; Minister for Education and Science 1968-69; Minister for Defence 1969-71; Minister for Education and Science 1971-72; Leader of the Opposition 1975

Yasuo Fukuda
Prime Minister of Japan 2007-08
Born 1936. BA, Waseda University, Member, House of Representatives 1990-2012; Minister of State, Chief Cabinet Secretary 2000-04; Director General of Okinawa Development Agency 2000; Minister of State for Gender Equality 2001-04. Currently, Chairman, Asia Boao Forum, a geostrategic think-tank

Andreas van Agt
Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1977-82
Born 1931. Barrister 1956-58; Professor of criminal law, Nijmegen University 1968-71; Minister of Justice 1971-73; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice 1973-77; member of the national parliament, leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) 1977

Sheikh Abdulaziz Z. Al-Quraishi
Former Governor of Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority 1974-83 Born 1930. MBA, University of Southern California; Minister of State 1970-74; Governor, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency 1974- 83; Chairman, Saudi International Bank, London 1987-96; Board Member, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, The Central Bank 1987-; Co-Chairman, US-Saudi Arabian Business Council, Washington & Riyadh 1994-2012 

Tun Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi
Prime Minister of Malaysia 2003-2009
Born 1939. BA in Islamic Studies, University of Malaya 1964; Minister, Prime Minister’s Department 1981-84; Minister of Education, 1984-86; Minister of Defence, 1986-87; Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1991-99; Founder and Chairman, Malaysian Institute of Islamic Understanding 

Abdel Salam Majali
Prime Minister of Jordan 1993-95, 1997-98
Born 1925. MD, Syrian University, Damascus 1949; Diploma of Laryngology and Otology, Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians, London 1953; Minister of Health, Jordan 1969-71; President, University of Jordan, Amman 1971-76, 1980-89; Minister of Education 1976- 79; Minister of State for Prime Ministry Affairs 1970-71, 1976-79; President, Islamic World Academy of Sciences

Olusegun Obasanjo
President of the Nigeria 1976-79, 1999-2007
Born 1937. The Nigerian Army Commander, Second Division (Rear) and Commander, Army Garrison, Ibadan; led the 3rd Marine Commando to conclude the Civil War 1970; Deputy-Head of State 1975 and Head of State 1976; established the Africa Leadership Forum 1988; founded Bells University of Technology 2005

George Vassiliou
President of Cyprus 1988-93
Born 1931. Degree and Doctorate in Economics, University of Economics, Budapest; Member of Parliament 1996-99; Head of the Republic of Cyprus Negotiating Team for the accession of Cyprus to the European Union with responsibility for coordinating the harmonization process within the country 1998-2003 

Valéry Giscard D’Estaing
President of the French Republic 1974-81
Born 1926. The École Polytechnique and the École Nationale d’Administration 1952; elected Deputy for Puy-de-Dôme 1956-74; Secretary of State for Finance 1959-62; Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs 1962-66; Mayor of Chamalières (Puy-de-Dôme) 1967-74, and 1982; President of the French Republic 1974-81, playing a crucial role in several international initiatives including the creation of the European Council, creation of the European Monetary System (1986 together with Helmut Schmidt), creation of the world summits of heads of state and government of the major industrialized democracies 

RELIGIOUS AND THEOLOGICAL LEADERS 

Hamza Al Salem
Professor, College of Business Administration, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Aleqtsadia, Al-Jazeera Columnist BA, Umm Al-Qura University, Makka, 1996; MA (Economics and Business Administration) 2002; PhD (Economics, Monetary and Finance) Clark University, Worcester 2005; Saudi Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Program and Post-doctoral summer programme, Islamic Studies, Oxford 2010; visiting scholar, University of Southern California 2005

Chang Hsin-Kang (H. K. Chang)
Honorary Professor and Yeh-Lu Xun Chair Professor at Peking University
Born 1940. BS in Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University 1962; MS, Structural Engineering, Stanford University 1964; PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University 1969; Taught at State University of New York, Buffalo 1969-76; McGill University 1976-84; the University of Southern University 1984-90; Founding Dean of School of Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 1990-94; Dean of School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh 1994-96; President and University Professor of City University of Hong Kong 1996-2007; Yeh-Lu Xun Chair Professor at Peking University since 2008 

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf
Full Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics, Faculty of Protestant Theology, LMU Munich 
Born 1948. Dr. Theol., University of Munich 1972; Dr. Theol. h.c., Aarhus University, Denmark 1986; Professor of Systematic Theology and Modern History of Theology, University of Augsburg; Chair of Protestant Theology and Social Ethics, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg 1992-1996; Professor Ordinarius of Protestant Theology, University of Augsburg 1996-1999; Fellow, the Max Weber Center of the University of Erfurt 1998-1999; Professor Ordinarius of Systematic Theology and Ethics, LMU Munich 1999-; Visiting Professor at Seigakuin University Tokyo 2000- 

Muhammad Al Habash
Associate Prof. of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
Born 1962. BA (Islamic Law) Damascus Univ. 1986; BA (Islamic Studies) Islamic Call College 1987; BA (Arabic Lit.) Beirut Univ. 1988; MA (Islamic Studies) Karachi Univ. 1992; PhD (Sciences of the Quran) Univ. of the Holy Quran-Khartoum 1996; Prof. of Sciences and Islamic culture, Islamic Call College, Damascus 1988-2002; Director of the Islamic Studies Center in Damascus 1992-; Prof. of High Studies, College of Usul Ed-din 1999-; Member of the Syrian Parliament 2003-2012

Kirk O. Hanson
Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and John Courtney Murray S.J. University Professor of Social Ethics
Born 1946. MBA, Standford Graduate School of Business. Held research fellowships at the Harvard Business School and the Yale Divinity School. Previously taught business ethics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for 23 years, served as faculty director of the Stanford Sloan Program, now Senior Lecturer Emeritus. Currently chair of the Center for International Business Ethics in Beijing 

Gholamali Khoshroo
Special Advisor of President Khatami on “Dialogue among Civilizations”; Senior Editor of the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Islam
Tehran University, Iran, and New School for Social Research, New York, U.S.A.; Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations 1989-95; Deputy Foreign Minister for Research and Education, Ambassador to Australia 1999-2002; Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, IR, Iran 2002-2005 

Mano Metttanando Laohavanich (Former Venerable Mettanando Bhikkhu)
Lecturer, Chulabhorn International College of Medicine & India Studies Centre, Thammasat University
Born 1956. BSc (Medical Science) & MD, Chulalongkorn University; BA, MA (Indology) Oxford University; ThM (Applied Buddhist Ethics) Harvard University; PhD (Thai Studies: Meditation for Healing) Hamburg University. Ordained 1982 and disrobed 2007; Chairman, Ethics Committee, Chulabhorn International College of Medicine, Thammasat University; Member of the Sub-commission of Ethics, Morality and Virtue, the Senate of Thailand

Abdul Mukti
Secretary of the Central (National) Board of Muhammadiyah, a modern Islamic movement in Indonesia and Sr. Lecturer, the State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Walisongo, Semarang, Indonesia Born 1968. Honors degree from the State Institute for Islamic Studies Walisongo 1992; M.Ed., Flinders University of South Australia 1997; Doctorate, State Islamic University, Jakarta 2008; University of Birmingham (on Governance and Sharia) 2005; Vice-Secretary of the National Board of Indonesian Muslim Intellectual 2005-2010; Advisor of the British Council 2005-; Head of National Board of School/ Madrasah Accreditation, Ministry of National Education and Culture 2012- 

Metropolitan Niphon
Vicar of the Patriarch of Antioch in Moscow 
Born 1941 in Zahle, Lebanon. Graduated Haygazyan College (Beirut) and ordained by Metropolitan of Heliopolis Niphon Saba 1959; B.Theology from Moscow Theological Academy, appointed secretary of Metropolitan of Zahle and Heliopolis 1964; moved to Moscow as archimandrite 1977; elected Bishop of Philipopolis 2009; elevated to Archbishop of the Patriarch of Antioch. (During the Soviet regime, the Representation of Antioch was the only place in Moscow where Russians were christened and married without passport registration) 

Koshin Ohtani
Monshu (Head Priest) of Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha (Japan)
Born 1945. BA Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies, The University of Tokyo 1968; MA Shin Buddhism, Ryukoku University 1971; MA Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies, The University of Tokyo 1974; Received Tokudo ordination 1960; Assumed position of Shimmon of Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha 1970; Assumed the 24th Monshu of Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha 1977; 13th, 18th and 25th President of the Japan Buddhist Federation 1978-80 and 2002-04

Jeremy Rosen
Rabbi, Educator, Author & Academic; Rabbi, Persian Jewish Community Manhattan and Scholar in Residence, J.C.C. Manhattan Born 1942. BA, (Hons) Philosophy, Cambridge University 1965; MA Cambridge University 1969; PhD, Ben Gurion University 1984. Rabbinic Ordination 1968; Rabbi, Giffnock & Newlands Hebrew Congregation Glasgow 1968-71; Principal, Carmel College, Oxfordshire, 1971-84; Visiting Lecturer Ben Gurion University & WUJS Post Graduate Centre Arad, Israel, 1984; Rabbi Western Synagogue London, 1985-1991; Professor & Faculty Chair F.V.G. Faculty For Comparative Religion. Antwerp Belgium, 1991- 

Amin Saikal
Professor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) and Public Policy Fellow, Australian National University 
Born 1944. Visiting fellow at Princeton University, Cambridge University and the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in International Relations 1983-1988; elected as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) 2013 

Stephan Schlensog
Secretary General, Global Ethic Foundation; Managing Director, Global Ethic Institute, University of Tübingen
Born 1958. D.Theol., 2006; close collaborator of Prof. Hans Küng for 30 years and member of his academic staff; Academic Advisor of multi- media project, “Tracing the Way” and Advisor for the development of the Internet-based learning programme, “A Global Ethic now!”

Ravi Shankar
Founder, the Art of Living (an educational and humanitarian NGO with a special status in UN’s ECOSOC) and the International Association for Human Values
Born 1956. Studied with Andit Sudhakar Chaturvedi, a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi; became a scholar in Vedic literature; obtained a degree in modern science; established the Art of Living 1981; founded the International Association for Human Values; has engaged in peace negotiations and counselling in conflict zones including Sri Lanka, Iraq, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Kashmir and Bihar, among others

Arif Zamhari
Senior figure in Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest Muslim Organization (Indonesia)
Born 1972. BA, State Institute for Islamic Studies, Sunan Ampel Malang, 1995; MA, State Institute for Islamic Studies Imam Bonjol, Islamic Thought Faculty, Padang, West Sumatra, 1998; PhD, Asian Pacific College, The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, 2007; Lecturer at Faculty of Theology, UIN Jakarta; Lecturer at Postgraduate IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya 2008-2011; Lecturer at Ma’had Al, International Division of Indonesian Waqf Board 2009- 

Paul M. Zulehner
Born 1939. PhD, 1961, D.Theology, 1965, Sociology of Religion in Insbruck, Vienna, Konstanz and Munchen; Ordained 1964 (Vienna’s Archdiocese); became qualified as University Lecturer in Pastoral Theology and Pastroal Sociology 1973; teaching in Bamerg, Passau, Bonn and Salzburg, 1974-84; Chair of the Faculty of Pastoral Theology, Salzburg 1984-98; Dean of the Faculty 1998-2008; Theological Advisor of the chairman of the Council of the Congress of the European Bishops’ Conferences 1985-2000 

IAC SECRETARY-GENERAL 

Thomas S. Axworthy
President and CEO, Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation (Canada) Born 1947. Policy Advisor, Office of the Prime Minister 1976- 78; Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada 1981-84; Mackenzie King Professor of Canadian Studies, Harvard University 1985-86; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 1990-2003; Executive Director, Historica Foundation of Canada 1999-2005; Chairman, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada 2001-06; Chairman, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Queen’s University 2003-2010; Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto, 2011-; Distinguished Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 2010- 

DOCUMENT CONTRIBUTORS 

Hans Küng
Professor Emeritus, Tübingen University (Switzerland)
Born 1928. Studied philosophy and theology at the Gregorian University (Rome), the Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique de Paris; President of the Global Ethic Foundation (Stiftung Weltethos) 1960- 96; Professor of Ecumenical Theology and Director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research at the University of Tübingen. Held guest professorships in New York, Basel, Chicago, Ann Arbor/Michigan, Houston/Texas 1962-65; served as official theological consultant (Peritus) to the Second Vatican Council appointed by Pope John XXIII 
 
Tu Weiming
Professor Emeritus of Confucian Studies at Harvard University; Professor, Peking University
Born 1940. BA, Tunghai University 1961; MA (1963) and PhD (1968) Harvard University; Taught at Princeton University, 1967-71 and University of California at Berkeley, 1971-81; Also taught at Peking University, Taiwan University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and École des Haute Etudes in Paris; Harvard faculty since 1981; holds honorary professorships from Zhejing, Sun Yat-sen, Suzhou, Renmin, Foreign Languages Universities, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences 

EDITOR’S NOTE 

How can one do justice to such a noble and an enormous subject such as ethics? It is both a noble pursuit and yet at the same time, it is one that causes immense frustration and often despair. Human beings have this capacity to ruin absolutely everything they get involved with, even Planet Earth itself. And then, what hope is there of achieving any kind of agreement let alone unanimity given the range and variety of human culture and religion?

These thoughts troubled me before I attended the 2014 Vienna conference of the InterAction Council. However I was pleasantly surprised by the evident good will and good intention of all the participants to try to overcome the challenges. It was, as a personal tribute to the participants, that I took on the task of editing the proceedings and some important earlier papers, as a record both of our endeavours in Vienna and the earlier work of the Council and the meetings devoted to this cause.

My intentions were good. But I fear that in trying to translate oral presentations into written ones, I may not always have done justice to the presenter’s intent. Similarly in trying to clarify obscure sentences and paragraphs and make papers more intelligible to those who did not hear them first hand, I might not have expressed the presentations in ways that the authors might have liked.

For these failures I accept complete blame and apologise with all my heart for any offence I may have committed. The last thing I wanted to do was to upset anyone. It was my intention only to make sure that the core messages of the presenters were understandable and conveyed the essence of what they wanted to convey. I believe everyone sincerely wished, in the words of Hillel the Elder, to “Love Peace, pursue Peace, love mankind and bring them closer to truth”.

December 2014
Jeremy Rosen