Dr. Iyad Abumoghli, Founder and Director of the Faith for Earth Initiative, has more than 35 years of experience with international organizations. Dr. Abumoghli's expertise focus on strategic planning, sustainable development, interfaith collaboration and knowledge and innovation. Dr. Abumoghli holds a doctorate degree in Bio-Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath/UK, and an outstanding graduate of the Virtual Development Academy - Johns University.

Godwin Adeboye is a First-Class graduate in religious studies from the University of Ibadan, in addition to a Master in Philosophy of religion from the same. Also, he has earned his academic development from University of Pretoria, South Africa (MTh), VID Specialized University, Norway and ECWA Theological Seminary Igbaja, Nigeria. He is the winner of the Does God Exist International Science and Faith scholarship essay competition in Michigan, 2013

Dr. Ayşe Almıla Akca received her PhD at the Institute of Islamic Studies/Freie Universität Berlin in 2018 with an ethnographic study on legitimisation and authorisation of Islamic knowledge in mosque associations in Germany (awarded with the DAVO-Dissertationspreis 2019). Her research includes Islamic-religious knowledge and religious practices of Muslims in Europe, Practical Theology and ethnographic research.

Jacques Beukes has a PhD in Practical Theology and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Practical Theology and Mission Studies at the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Theology and Religion. He is also an ordained reverend in the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa. He is an NRF-rated researcher, and his research foci are theology and development, religion and development, community development, congregational studies, diaconal studies, youth and children’s ministry.

He is presently the Head of the Environmental Desk at the Muslim Judicial Council. He is also the MJC representative on SAFCEI. He has been the Imaam and Khatib at various Masajid in Cape Town.
He is very active in supplying the community information on environmental ethics. He is presently starting eco-congregations in the communities. He has published many research papers on Islam, Science as well as on Environmental issues at various conferences in many countries.

Rev Dr Rachel Mash is the coordinator of the ACSA Environmental Network (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini). She is the secretary for the Anglican Communion Environmental Network and a member of the steering committee for the Season of Creation. She is also a member of the UNEP Faith For Earth task team on pollution.

Full Professor in Anthropology (Religion & Gender) & National Rated Scientist. Received institutional and national recognition for interdisciplinary research. In 2013, won a National Award (Department of Science & Technology for Women in Science). On editorial Boards of Anthropology Southern Africa (Taylor Francis), Oriental Anthropologist (Sage) and Religion & Development (Brill). Her background in feminist research allows for critical empirical work across international projects.

Philipp Öhlmann is Feodor Lynen Research Fellow at the University of Botswana. Moreover, he is Principal Investigator in the Research Programme in Religious Communities and Sustainable Development as well as Senior Associated Research at the Center for Rural Development at Humboldt University Berlin. Philipp conducted extensive research religion, development and sustainability in the African context. He is also the executive editor of the IN//RCSD journal Religion & Development.

Prof. Dr. Almut-Barbara Renger teaches Religious Studies at the University of Basel and is a Distinguished Research Fellow with the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development at HU Berlin. She has published widely on ancient myth, modern Buddhism and contemporary alternative religion. Within SAGRaS she focuses on Engaged Buddhist approaches that actively address planetary issues like climate change and environmental devastation, as well as social justice and ecology.

Prof Annalet van Schalkwyk taught Missiology at the University of South Africa, Tshwane, from 1995 to 2021. She is currently working on the Garden of Peace project, together with Tshwane Leadership Foundation, in the inner city of Tshwane. She has published several articles on Missiology and community development, feminist and ecofeminist theology, as well as interreligious dialogue and ecological activism in Southern Africa.

Juliane Stork (born 1991 in Berlin) is the John S. Mbiti Research Fellow at the Research Programme for Religious Communities and Sustainable Development. She pursues a PhD on "The Production of Theology in African Independent Christianity - the Case of Ecology in the Zion Christian Church in South Africa".

Born: 1951
Dwgrees: BA, ND, DD, University of Pretoria
Minister of the (black) DR Church in Africa: 1978-1984
Professor, University of the North: 1984 - 1993.
One of his books, Dominee, are you listening to the drums? was co-winner of the Sunday Times Literary Award for Political Writing in 1984, plus 50+ academic articles and chapters in books
1994-2014: managing director of Nova Institute, and 1997-206 part-time lecturer and researcher, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.

Geke van Vliet is joining SAGRaS as a PhD candidate at the University of Pretoria. She has finished a Research Master in Theology and a Master of Divinity at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Next to her studies, she has worked as a youth worker in the Protestant Church in Amsterdam. Within SAGRaS she will focus on the contribution of especially young people in mainline churches in South Africa and Germany to socio-ecological transition.

Dr Tanya van Wyk is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics and Spirituality at the Faculty of Theology and Religion. Her current research foci include political theology, feminist theology and ethics and religion and sustainable development with a focus on gender equity. She is the Chairperson of the Research Ethics Committee of her Faculty and is currently a research fellow with the Programme for Religious Communities and Sustainable Development at Humboldt University.