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Andrew James "A.J." Boyd

Country: Italy

Year: 2019

Religious affiliation: Christianity

Senior Programme Manager, KAICIID International Fellows Programme

Andrew J. Boyd is Senior Programme Manager of the KAICIID International Fellows Programme. 

Prior to joining KAICIID staff in 2024, he was a professor of theology and religious studies in Rome, specializing in ecclesiology, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue. Over nearly 15 years, he taught for the Pontifical Beda College, The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC), The Australian Catholic University (Melbourne, AU), Assumption College (Worcester, Mass.), and Richmond University (London, UK), as well as the Continuing Education Programme of the Pontifical North American College and the Institute for Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago. 

He came to Rome in 2009 as a Russell Berrie Fellow in Interreligious Studies, and worked as assistant director of the John Paul II Center for Interreligious Dialogue at the Pontifical University of San Tommaso d'Aquino. He has been a Fellow of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. He was a KAICIID Fellow in 2019. He serves on the board of directors of the North American Academy of Ecumenists, and is a global consultant to the World Organization of the Scout Movement on spirituality and interreligious dialogue.

His motto isTruth has no fear of dialogue.”