July 2007

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Mr Raymond Perrier, Director,
comes from the UK where he was working for CAFOD, the official development agency of the Catholic Church in England & Wales. CAFOD has grown to be one of the leading UK charities raising around £50 million from the Catholic community for development and emergency relief programmes in 50 countries. His role there was to oversee a department of 75 people in 22 locations around the country working with Catholic communities (dioceses, parishes, schools, youth centres, interfaith groups) to build awareness and solidarity, educate and raise funds. While at CAFOD, he spearheaded a ground-breaking survey about the Catholic community which he was recently privileged to present to the plenary conference of English Bishops.

Raymond first got to know South Africa in the 1990s when was in the world of business. As a director of Interbrand, one of the world’s leading branding consultancies, he advised organisations on how to optimise their brands through effective investment and marketing strategies. Companies with whom Raymond worked in South Africa included SAB Miller, BP, ABSA and Tiger Foods.

But Raymond also knows the Jesuits well, having been a scholastic (seminarian) for 6 years. While a novice (alongside the parish priest at Braamfontein, Russell Pollitt!) he worked in a L’Arche community providing residential support for adults with learning disabilities and also taught in the Jesuit high school in Scotland. For 2 years he led a project for the Jesuit Refugee Service in Uganda accompanying Southern Sudanese refugees who were moving from the UN camps back to their homes. He has also worked as a fund-raiser for The Passage homeless charity in London, and has been involved in the Strangers into Citizens campaign to persuade the UK Government to regularise undocumented migrants.

Raymond holds a MA in Philosophy and Theology from New College Oxford, an MA in Philosophy from Heythrop College of the University of London and an MSc in human rights from the London School of Economics. He speaks a number of European languages (French, Italian, Spanish, German) as well as British Sign Language. He acquired some basic Juba Arabic while working with the Sudanese and looks forward to learning some isiZulu.

He has published numerous articles in newspapers and journals, and edited a book entitled Brand Valuation (Premier Books, London, 1994).

Fr Chris Chatteris SJ was born in 1950 in Ndola, Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia). He was brought up there, in Zimbabwe and the UK. He joined the Jesuits in 1968 in Scotland and did a degree in French and a postgraduate certificate in education, as well as the usual philosophical and theological courses. At the age of 50 he completed a Master's in theology on the topic of teaching preaching. As a Jesuit he has been a secondary school teacher in France and the UK, a parish priest and director of novices in KwaZulu Natal, a Jesuit Superior in Johannesburg and a seminary teacher, also in KZN. Sidelines have been spiritual direction and retreat-giving and some freelancing print journalism.Interests are numerous but of late has become fascinated by the climate change issue. You can read his blog here.

Frances Correia, was born in 1975 in Johannesburg, South Africa. After matriculating from Sacred Heart College, she studied Literature and Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has worked as a Spiritual Director and Trainer for the Centre for Ignatian Spirituality since 1999. You can read her blog here.

Fr Anthony Egan SJ, was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1966, and entered the Society of Jesus in September 1990, having completed an MA in History at the University of Cape Town. He studied Philosophy and Theology at Heythrop College, University of London (1992-1995) and at Weston Jesuit School of Theology (1999 – 2003), as well as completing a PhD in Political Studies at University of the Witwatersrand . He was ordained a priest on August 30, 2002. He has lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand (political studies) and at St Augustine College of South Africa (applied ethics), and has published in the areas of history, politics and ethics. His interests include: political leadership, South African politics, moral theology and bioethics. You can read his blog here.

Fr Peter Knox SJ, a native of Johannesburg, matriculated at De la Salle College in Victory Park. After studying chemistry at UCT, Peter joined the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in 1983. His Jesuit formation has taken him to England, Germany, Canada, Australia, Cedara, Soweto, and Cape Town. Peter has a doctorate in Systematic Theology from St Paul University in Ottawa. His area of particular interest is contextual theology, trying to "bring home" to Africa 2000 years of Christian wisdom. You can read his blog here.

Puleng Matsaneng, was born in 1969 in South Africa and grew up in Soweto. After matriculating at Mohaladitoe Senior Secondary School and studying for a B.A. degree at Vista University, she joined the Centre for Ignatian Spirituality in 2002 and is now part of the Jesuit Institute where she works in Spirituality and researches Ignatian Spirituality in an African context.

Dr Annemarie Paulin-Campbell, is a Catholic laywoman. She has worked full-time for the past eight years in the area of Christian Spirituality, doing spiritual direction and retreat work, and training spiritual directors in the Ignatian tradition. She is a qualified educational psychologist and has worked in particular in the areas of trauma counselling and commmunity psychology. Annemarie completed a Masters Degree in Christian Spirituality at Heythrop, the Jesuit College of the University of London and then went on to complete her doctorate on the interface between psychology and Christian Spirituality from the University of KwaZulu Natal. You can read her blog here.

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