BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 
 

President - Prof. Dr. Felix Wilfred , INDIA

Felix Wilfred was born in Tamil Nadu, India in 1948. He is the President of the faculty of arts, and Chairman of The School of Philosophy and Religious thought, State University of Madras. He is also a member of the Statutory Ethical Committee of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He was a member of International Theological Commission of the Vatican. As visiting professor, he has taught at the Universities of Nijmegen, Munster, Frankfurt am Main, Boston College and Ateneo de Manila. His researches and field studies today cut across many disciplines in humanities and social sciences. His more recent publications in the field of Theology are "On the Banks of Ganges" (2002), "Asian Dreams and Christian Hope" (2003), "The Sling of Utopia: Struggles for a Different Society" (2005), and "Margins: Site of Asian Theologies (2008).

 
 

 
 

Vice President - Prof. Dr. E.P.N.M. Borgman, The Netherlands

Erik (Dr. E.P.N.M.) Borgman (Amsterdam, 1957) is Professor for Systematic Theology – Theology of Religion, especially Christianity – in the Department of Religious Studies and Theology of Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is married with two daughters and is a Lay Dominican. Borgman studied philosophy and theology at the University of Nijmegen. He wrote a dissertation on the different forms of Liberation Theology and their relation to academic Western theology (promotion 1990). Between 1998 and 2004 he worked for the Dutch Province of the Order of Preachers to study and keep alive the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx. He has published Edward Schillebeeckx: a Theologian in his History.

 
 

 
 

Vice President - Diego Irarrazaval, Chile

Diego Irarrazaval, was born in Chile in 1942 and is a priest of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. He has been director of the Institute of Aymara Studies and has worked in indigenous pastoral care in Peru and other places on the continent. From 2001 to 2006 he was president of EATWOT (association of Third-World Theologians). He is the author of Religion del pobre y liberacion (1978); Teologia en la fe del pueblo (1992); Inculturación (1998); Raices de la esperanza (2004); Gozar la espiritualidad (2004); Gozar la etica (2005). At present he collaborates in parish pastoral work in Santiago, and he teaches in the Catholic University Silva Henriquez in Chile.

 
 

 
 

Vice President - Susan Ross, USA

Susan A. Ross is Professor of Theology, Chair of the Theology Department, and a Faculty Scholar at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of For the Beauty of the Earth: Women, Sacramentality, and Justice (Paulist, 2006), Extravagant Affections: A Feminist Sacramental Theology (Continuum, 1998), and numerous articles and book chapters. She has served on the Boards of the College Theology Society, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Society of Christian Ethics.