Lamin Sanneh
Dr. Lamin Sanneh is the D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity and Professor of History at Yale Divinity School. His books include Whose Religion is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West (Eerdmans, 2003); Changing Face of Christianity: Africa, the West and the World (Oxford, 2005); and Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity (Oxford, 2007).
Dr. Sanneh is Honorary Research Professor in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He was chairman of Yale's Council on African Studies. He is an editor-at-large of the ecumenical weekly The Christian Century and a contributing editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research, and he serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and encyclopedias. He has served as consultant to the Pew Charitable Trusts. He was an official consultant at the 1998 Lambeth Conference in London and is a member of the Council of 100 Leaders of the World Economic Forum. He was appointed by Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Commission of the Historical Sciences, and by Pope Benedict XVI to the Pontifical Commission on Religious Relations with Muslims. He has received an award as the John W. Kluge Chair in the Cultures and Societies of the South by the Library of Congress. For his academic work, he was made Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Lion, Senegal's highest national honor, and is a recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.