Ana María CELIS BRUNET, was born in Viña del Mar, Chile. She is an Attorney at Law, and got her License and Doctoral degree in Canon Law at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana (Rome, Italy) with the dissertation on "La relevancia canónica del matrimonio civil a la luz de la Teoría general del Acto jurídico, contribución teórica a la experiencia jurídica chilena".
Professor CELIS teaches Canon Law and Law and Religion at the Law Faculty of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, as well as post graduate courses in different programs. She is the Director of the Canon Law Department of her Faculty, and she's the director of the Centro de Libertad Religiosa - Derecho UC that started in 2005 as a center for studying Church-State
matters and promoting religious freedom.
Since 2005 she has been the secretary of the Consorcio Latinoamericano de Libertad Religiosa and recently she's been elected as its President. She belongs to the Promoting Committee of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS).
Rasim Hasanaj, Chairman, State Committee on Cults of the Republic of Albania Rasim is a lawyer, and has headed the State Committee on Cults since 2005. He served as chair of the working group that prepared the agreements between the state and the four traditional religions in Albania that were finalized in 2008. Similarly, he chaired the expert group on the newly promulgated law on religious aid that was approved this year by the Albanian Parliament – the 2009 law on “Financial Aid for Religious Communities.” He is also chair of the expert group that just finished the final draft of the law “On Religious Communities,” which was recently the subject of a favorable review by the Venice Commission. Rasim has participated actively in numerous international activities designed to foster religious collaboration and tolerance, particularly in the Balkan region and elsewhere in Europe. He has authored numerous publications on religious tolerance in Albania.
Brikena Kasmi, Head of the Legal Drafting Sector, General Department of Codification, Ministry of Justice
Brikena has been working in the Ministry of Justice as the Head of the legal Drafting Sector since 2007. Her duties include legal drafting and legal opinions. She has also worked with international relation as well as EU integration issues, where she has had major responsibility in the Ministry of Justice since 2003.
Her professional engagements have also included working in Albanian civil society where she has directed a youth center, and has organized the organization Youth Group for Human Rights.
Brikena has worked as a private attorney in private practice, where she handled the registration of religious communities under Albanian law.She was part of the working group as the representative of the Ministry of Justice for drafting the law on religious communities as well as for the agreements between religious communities and Albanian state. Brikena has written several papers and articles on juvenile justice, media law in Albania, etc. She is a lecturer in administrative law, conflict of interest law and elections code.
La Doctora Andrea Paula De Vita
Fue designada como directora del Registro Nacional de Cultos, por un decreto
presidencial. Se trata de la primera persona de origen cristiano evangélico que
ocupa ese cargo, según informó el boletín Sideca. De Vita “se congregó en su
juventud” en la Iglesia del Libertador, una congregación de Hermanos Libres en el
barrio porteño de Núñez. Es doctora en filosofía graduada en la Universidad de
Sevilla, licenciada en Teología en el Instituto Universitario ISEDET y profesora en la
Universidad del Salvador. Se especializó en estudios árabes e islámicos. Es miembro
y asesora de investigación del Centro de Investigaciones en Filosofía e Historia de
las Religiones (CIFHIRE‐CONICET) y fue asesora en la Cancillería sobre temas del
Oriente Medio. (Informó "Pulso Cristiano" 18‐12‐08) FOTO: Dra. De Vita conversa
con el Pr. Darío Bruno de Libertad Religiosa Adventista de la UA)
Embajador Juan Laureano Fabián Landaburu‐ Subsecretario de Culto de
la Nación
Hasta su nombramiento fue auditor interno (por la Sindicatura General de la
Nación) del Instituto Nacional de Cine. Anteriormente fue Gerente de asuntos
Jurídicos de dicho organismo, Jefe de Planeamiento y Normativa de la Dirección de
Planificación de la Auditoría General de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Asesor de la
Presidencia de la Comisión Nacional de la Regulación del Transporte Automotor y
letrado apoderado de las entidades Financieras en liquidación por el Banco Central
de la República Argentina.
Luiz Alberto Barbosa: I am graduated in Law, with master’s degree on science of religion. I am a priest of the Episcopal Church and the General Secretary of the Brazilian Council of Churches.
ANDRÉ FRANCO MONTORO FILHO Graduated in Economics from FEA/USP (University of São Paulo), spent his entire
university career at the University of São Paulo, where he was first hired in 1966. He received his doctorate (Ph.D.) outside of Brazil—at Yale University in the
United States—and then passed required public exams to earn a full professor’s chair in 1983. He was Assistant Director of Faculty in Economics at USP and President of FIPE (Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas—Foundation for Economic Studies). At the same time he also held many important public offices: President of BNDES (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social—National Bank for Economic and Social Development), President of the Committee for the Federal Program of Privatization, and the State Secretary of Economic Planning for the State of São Paulo.President of ETCO (Brazilian Institute for Ethics in Bidding)—since January of 2007Full Professor at the University of São Paulo – Faculty of Economics,
Business Administration and Accounting at FEA/USP, part of the Economics Department Ph.D. (Doctorate) in Economics—Yale University, 1975 State Secretary of Economic Planning—State of São Paulo (1995/2002)
President of the Committee for the Federal Program of Privatization (1993/1994)Assistant Director of Faculty in Economics at USP—(1990/1994)President of the Foundation for Economic Studies (FIPE)—(1989/1993)
President of the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES)—(1985/1988)
John Fitzgerald Young was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/RadioCanada on September 10, 2009, for a five-year term.
Mr. Young is the Dean of the College of Arts, Social and Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia and a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science (1997-2004), and later the Chair of Political Science (2004-2008) at the University of Northern British Columbia. Mr. Young has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Slavic
Research Centre at Hokkaido University and a Visiting Professor at Brigham Young University. He began his academic career as a lecturer at the University
of Alberta and the University of Northern British Columbia. In addition to that, Mr. Young was the Mission President of the Russia Moscow Mission founded
by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (2001-2004). Mr. Young holds a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Toronto (1997), as well as a Master of Arts degree from the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies at Carleton University (1989). He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in Slavic Studies from the University of Alberta (1987), and a certificate in Russian language training from the Pushkin Pedagogical Institute in Moscow (1988). During his career, Mr. Young has been presented with several scholarships,
grants and awards.
LIU Peng (“Paul”) is the Director of the Pu Shi Institute for Social Sciences in Beijing, is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy in Social Sciences (the Premier Social Science Research Institute in the People’s Republic of China), and is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion Studies at Emory University. Professor Peng is the author of many articles and books, including two important books, State Religion and Law (2006) and Contemporary American Religions (2001). An innovator in China, Professor Peng started the first website on law and religion in China, has organized many conferences in China and Viet Nam, is a leading academic voice in China concerning law and religion matters, and freedom of religion in particular.
Es uno de los principales dirigentes del Partido
Revolucionario Dominicano en la provincia de
San Pedro de Macorís.
Nació el 29 de julio de 1969 en el municipio
cabecera y para el año 2000, durante el
gobierno del presidente Hipólito Mejía se
desempeñó como Gobernador Civil de la
provincia. Fue electo diputado al Congreso
Nacional en 2002 y reelecto en las elecciones congresuales de 2006.
Es político a tiempo completo y ha asumido la responsabilidad de compartir la dirección de campaña presidencial del ingeniero Miguel Vargas
Maldonado en la provincia, que lleva a cabo sin que haya disminuido su
participación en las sesiones y otras actividades de la Cámara de
Diputados.
Área de interés legislativo: Justicia, Cámara de Cuentas.
Prof. Mandour graduated from Kasr Al Aini School of Medicine, Cairo University and obtained her Doctorate Degree in Physiology and Endocrinology from London University. She is currently professor and former Head of Department at Al Azhar University Faculty of
Medicine. She served as USAID consultant for Innovation of medical Education and establishment of Curricula of Suez Canal University. Prof. Mandour has worked intensively with Civil Society and non-governmental organization (NGOs) during the last 15 years. She held the post of Secretary General of the National NGO
Commission for Population and development and has actively participated in various United Nations Conferences Nationally and Internationally.She is a member of the Interreligious Dialogue and the Islamic Foreign Relations committee of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs as well as attending and lecturing in various conferences and seminars around the world, tackling the crucial subjects of Moslem, Christina,
and Jewish Dialogue, Freedom of Belief, International Terrorism and Human Rights, one of which was the World Economic from in Davos, Switzerland. Prof. Mandour is a member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, joining efforts with the working groups of the Council dealing with issues of the Middle East, Arming Control and Regional Security, the US affairs and the EU affairs. She is a member of the National Democratiac party, Egypt’s International Economic Forum as well as Rotary International. Prof. Mandour has authored 23 books in English and Arabic, published 30 scientific papers in international medical and scientific journals and supervised 17 Ph. D. theses in academic and
clinical specialties. One of her books titles “The Civilized Role of Islam in Family Health and Women’s
Integrity” was the official publication of the Ministry of populations and Family welfare and was presented as Egypt’s stand position at the UN conference ICPD in 1994, another book titled “Women in Islam, the Rights and political Role: was published by the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs.
She has 2 grown children, both doctors who graduated from the German school in Cairo and spent most of their lives abroad. Currently her son is practicing medicine and living with his family in Germany
Dr Nii Armah Josiah-Aryeh was born in 1958 at Jamestown in Accra. From Accra High School and Achimota School, he read English, Modern History and Law at University of Ghana and was active in student politics. He was called to the Bar in 1983. In April 1984 he left for the UK on self-financed postgraduate education, where he obtained LLM (LSE), Certificate in Law Teaching (UC, London) and PhD (SOAS). He returned to Ghana in January 1998 as a private legal practitioner and Lecturer at his alma mater. His weekly Upper-Cut articles for the mass-selling Daily Graphic established him as an incisive thinker on national affairs. In 2000 he
unsuccessfully stood for parliament but went on to become General Secretary of the main opposition NDC at arguably the most turbulent period of competitive
democratic politics in Ghana's history. Shortly after 2004 elections he was suspended from the General Secretary position following allegations of intended
defection for monetary gains. The allegations have since proven to be false and he remains an NDC member. In the last 3 years he has produced legal texts - Ghana
Law of Wills, Property Law of Ghana, Islamic Customary Law in Ghana, and coedited Ghana Law Since Independence, published by his Faculty of Law as part of Ghana's Golden Jubilee celebrations. However, it is his present work, INSIDE GHANA'S DEMOCRACY that provides the most profound insight into Dr JosiahAryeh's thoughts on politics and his role at the heart of Ghana's emerging democratic institutions. It is a story of passion, selflessness, nostalgia, enthusiasm and betrayal. Yet Dr Josiah-Aryeh remains optimistic for both democracy in Ghana and the NDC's own prospects. This book is a must for all who want insight into the covert forces behind Ghanaian politics as well as the dangers of semi-developed
party politics.
https://www.religlaw.org/docs/Father%20Butros%20Janho.pdf
Alberto Patiño Reyes holds a Ph.D in Law (with outstanding honors) from Madrid Complutense University. He is currently a Professor of Law and Religion in the law department of the Iberoamericana University in Mexico City. He is the author of several articles exploring the interaction of law and religion in Mexico, and recently published a book titled Religious Freedom and Hispanic American Principles of Cooperation. He is a frequent speaker at both national and international Congresses related to religious freedom and a regular member of the Latin American Consortium of Religious Freedom, the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS), and the National Association of Law Doctorates.