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IBAVI Leadership

Leadership for the IBAVI occurs at two interdependent levels: Executive Board and Advisory Board.

IBAVI Executive Director and Board

The IBAVI is administered by the IBAVI Executive Director and Executive Board. The Executive Board members include:

  Craig N. Shealy, Ph.D.
Executive Director, International Beliefs and Values Institute
Professor of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University (JMU)
  Devi Bhuyan, Psy.D. 

Fellow, International Beliefs and Values Institute
  Jennifer Coffman, Ph.D.

Associate Executive Director, Office of International Programs, JMU
Program Director, JMU
Summer in Kenya
  Steve Grande, Ph.D.
Director, Civic Engagement
Spencer Center for Civic and Global Engagement, Mary Baldwin College (MBC)
  Teresa Harris, Ph.D.
Professor of Early Childhood and Elementary Education, JMU
  Fletcher Linder, Ph.D.
Director, Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies
Associate Professor of Anthropology, JMU
  Roderic L. Owen, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Fellow, Spencer Center for Civic and Global Engagement, MBC
  David Owusu-Ansah, Ph.D.
Professor of Africana Studies, JMU
  Lee G. Sternberger, Ph.D.
Associate Provost, Academic Affairs
Executive Director, Office of International Programs, JMU
  Heather H. Ward, M.I.A.
Director, International Programs
Spencer Center for Civic and Global Engagement, MBC 

IBAVI Advisory Board

The IBAVI Advisory Board includes a distinguished and international assemblage of individuals and organizations from around the world.

  Akwasi Aidoo, Ph.D.
Executive Director
TrustAfrica
Dakar–Fann, Senegal
www.trustafrica.org/
  Fawzia Al-Attia, Ph.D.
Chair, Union of Iraqi Sociologists
Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Baghdad
Baghdad, Iraq
http://www.ulum.nl/a98.htm
  A. T. Ariyaratne, D.Litt., D.H.
Founder and President

Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka 

www.sarvodaya.org/
  Jo Beall, Ph.D.
Professor and Director (fmr.)
Development Studies Institute
London School of Economics
London, England
www.lse.ac.uk/collections/DESTIN/Default.htm
  Sergio Berensztein, Ph.D.
President

Poliarquía Consultores
Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.poliarquia.com/
  Joseph Camilleri, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Centre for Dialogue
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia
www.latrobe.edu.au/dialogue/index.html
  Juanito Camilleri, Ph.D.
Professor and Rector
University of Malta 

Valetta, Malta

www.um.edu.mt/
  Sergey Erofeev, Ph.D. 

Professor and Director
Centre for the Sociology of Culture 

Kazan State University

Kazan, Russia

www.sociocult.ksu.ru/?pid=39
  Christine Loh, OBE
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Civic Exchange
Hong Kong, China

www.civic-exchange.org/
  Usha Nayar, Ph.D.
Professor and Provost (fmr.)
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Mumbai, India

www.tiss.edu/
  Hanne Strong
President
Manitou Foundation

Crestone, Colorado, United States
www.manitou.org/