Rev. Dr. Joseph Chandrakanthan
Vice-Chairs
Joseph Chandrakanthan received his PhD from the University of Ottawa and ThD from St.Paul University in Ottawa. He was Associate Professor and Founding Head of the Department of Christian and Islamic & Civilizations at the University of Jaffna where he taught there for seventeen years.
Returning to Canada in 1996 he was Professor of Theology and Ethics at Concordia University in Montreal and in 1999 became Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and Senior Bioethicist at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethcis. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Theology in the Univerity of Toronto . His areas of research and publications include Religious Sociology, Philopshy, and Literature, especially Buddhist, Hindu and SaiviteTamil Literature of the Pre-modern and modern periods.
He has presented papers at several national and international conferences on Religion & Ethics and has given invited public lectures at several European and American Universities including University of Oxford, Uppsala University in Sweden and the State University of New York.