Co-Chairpersons:

George Bailey (United Kingdom)
Lecturer in Mission and Wesleyan Studies
Cliff College
Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Methodist Presbyteral Minister (Co-Superintendent) in Leeds North and East Circuit
W. Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Tim Eberhart (North America)
Robert and Marilyn Degler McClean Associate
Professor of Ecological Theology and Practice
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Evanston, IL, USA

Tony Franklin Ross (Pacific-Oceana)
Presbyter
Methodist Church of New Zealand, Te Hāhi Weteriana O Aotearoa
New Zealand-Aotearoa

Lizette Pearl Tapia (Pacific-Oceana)
Academic Dean
Union Theological Seminary, Philippines
General Trias, Cavite, Philippines

R. Simangaliso Kumalo (Africa)
Director
Centre for Constructive Theology
School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Scottsville, South Africa

Taylor Denyer (Africa)
Adjunct Faculty
Methodist Theological School in Ohio (MTSO)
Cairo, Egypt

Jung Choi (Asia)
Associate Dean for Global and Intercultural Formation; Director of the Asian House of
Studies; Administrative Faculty
Duke Divinity School
Durham, NC, USA

Naveen Rao (Asia)
Principal
Leonard Theological College
Jabalpur, India

David Field (Europe)
Ecumenical Staff Officer for Faith and Order and Theological Dialogue for the Council of Bishops
The United Methodist Church
Basel, Switzerland

Pablo Andiñach (Latin America)
Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient
History
Catholic University of Argentina (UCA)
Professor of Hebrew Bible
UCEL (The Methodist University in Argentina)

North American Secretary

Filipe Maia
Assistant Professor of Theology
Boston University School of Theology
Boston, MA, USA

United Kingdom Secretary

Liz Kent
Director
Wesley Study Centre
St John’s College, Durham University
Durham, United Kingdom

Committee Members (representing working group disciplines)
Kojo Okyere
Kara Lyons-Pardue
Edgardo Colon-Emeric
Rachel Cope
Siyabulela Tonono
David Bishau
Madelyn Johnson
Christopher Oliver
Leonel Ivan Jimenez Jimenez
Erika Stalcup
Lisa Allen
Jonathan Reinert
Elvira Moise da Silva Cazombo

Ex Officio
Leão Neto (WMC General Secretary)
Debra Wallace-Padgett (WMC Executive Committee Chairperson)
Matthew Charlton (Oxford Foundation)

Consultants
Tim Macquiban
Sarah Lancaster
Martin Wellings
JC Park
Helmut Renders