Staff of the Jesuit Institute

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.

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.

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 studied and worked in the area of Christian Spirituality for the past 15 years doing spiritual direction and retreat work, and training spiritual directors in the Ignatian tradition.  Her particular area of interest is the interface between Christian Spirituality and Psychology. Annemarie is a qualified educational psychologist and has worked in particular in the areas of trauma counselling and community psychology.  She worked at Parent and Child Counselling Centre in Berea Johannesburg before working as a psychologist in private practice.  Annemarie completed a Masters Degree in Christian Spirituality at Heythrop, the Jesuit College of the University of London and a three month course in Apostolic Spirituality at St Beuno’s North Wales.

On her return to South Africa she founded the Centre for Ignatian Spirituality funded by the Society of Jesus. In 2006 the Centre became part of the newly formed Jesuit Institute South Africa.  While working in Ignatian spirituality she completed her doctorate in the interface between psychology and Christian Spirituality from the University of KwaZulu Natal.  Her doctoral thesis is on “The impact of imaginal and dialogical processes on shifts in image of God and image of self in women making the Spiritual Exercises as a Nineteenth Annotation Retreat.”  She has given Spiritual Exercises as a 30-day retreat at St Beuno’s in North Wales and in South Africa. Annemarie is an editorial correspondent for The Way Journal of Ignatian Spirituality and has given presentations at International Spirituality Conferences in Rome, and Ethiopia and has been a delegate to international meetings in Spain and Zimbabwe.  

Annemarie’s main interest is in developing the Spirituality work of the institute in particular the training and supervision of spiritual directors.  The Institute’s  Spirited Leadership programme  for developing leaders who are both authentic and integral  is also one of her areas of focus.  Annemarie also works privately as a life coach and recently became part of the National ethics committee of the Coaches and Mentors Association of South Africa.