Professor Dr. Angeliki Ziaka serves as Programme Executive for Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation at the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva, a position she assumed in August 2024. In this role, she works to strengthen ties with religious communities, organisations, and institutions worldwide, fostering initiatives that promote peaceful coexistence through interreligious understanding and cooperation.
Prof. Ziaka is currently on leave from the School of Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she has been Professor of the Study of Religion and Interreligious Dialogue since 2006. She holds a PhD and a DEA in Religious Studies from the Catholic Faculty of the University of Strasbourg, with additional training at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome and at the University of Amman in Jordan. Over her academic career, she has supervised numerous master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. Her publications include several books and scholarly articles in the fields of the Study of Religions and Interreligious Dialogue.
She has been a fellow at Leiden University and at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute. Since 2024, she has been serving as editor of Current Dialogue, the WCC’s journal on interreligious dialogue, published annually by Wiley on behalf of the WCC as a special issue of The Ecumenical Review.