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Our trustees are:

  • Revd Canon Mark Oxbrow (Chair)
    Director, Guided Research Programme at Oxford Centre for Mission Studies with long experience of other Christian trusts.

  • Ms Jill Dhell
    Jill's interest is in strategy, policy and the dynamics within institutional fields, following a career in the civil service. She combines this with a decade of involvement with organisations bringing Christians and Muslims together, and personal relationships across different faith heritages.

  • Dr Mohammed Girma
    Girma is Tutor and Senior Research Fellow at the International Bible Advocacy Centre and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton in London. 

  • Dr Kathryn Kraft
    Kathryn is Senior Lecturer and Director of Careers and Enterprise at University of East London, where her research focuses on faith-based humanitarianism and peacebuilding; she also serves as Senior Research Advisor for Faith and Development at World Vision International.

  • Dr Philip John Lewis
    After a lifetime advising Anglican bishops of Bradford and lecturing in the Peace Studies Department at Bradford on Christian-Muslim relations, Philip maintains his passion to enable members of both faiths to honour their deepest convictions, while living at peace with each other.

  • Dr Carol M Walker
    After more than three decades of involvement in NGO and church activities in Pakistan and the Middle East, prior to retirement Carol was lecturer in Old Testament and Islamic Studies at All Nations Christian College.