The Director General of the
World Dialogue Council has previously served as Senior Advisor to the World
Economic Forum and C100. He has undertaken extensive international and development
work for the church. He is also currently developing the Global Values
Initiative aiming to enhance Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainable
and ethical competitiveness.
He was formerly Dean of All Saints’ Cathedral in Cairo
where he has also advised the Anglican Bishop of Egypt, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, the Most Revd Dr Mounir Anis, currently Primate of the Anglican Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. He has been a Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington DC. and
has assisted, on an adjunct basis, with the work of the international Anglican
Consultative Council. He is special advisor to Lord Carey of Clifton, formerly
the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury.
He was educated at the Universities of London, Oxford and
Yale. In Oxford he specialized in Philosophical Theology and he also taught
Philosophy of Religion. At Yale he also studied International Relations and Islam and
served as a Research Fellow.
With wide ranging experience in
international and development work and special expertise in faith related
dimensions, He founded Avancia Consulting and continues to undertakes consulting work and special projects and has
particular expertise in negotiating successful outcomes in complex contexts with multiple actors and issues.
Also consults in business ethics and the effective exercise of leadership and in
conflict resolution. (Issues have ranged from, strategy for ensuring long term
industry-leading innovation, to international corporate integration conflict
and management challenges, through to addressing the local and regional
challenges posed to and by development.
He currently divides his time mainly between the
Middle East, UK and the United States.
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