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Speakers Rowan Williams
Sir Partha Dasgupta
Sir Partha was named Knight
Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II in her Birthday
Honours List in 2002 for
"services to economics." Bernard Ntahoturi Bernard Ntahoturi is the Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Burundi. His province faces the challenges of extreme poverty, AIDS, and the results of many years of civil war. During Burundi’s peace negotiations Ntahoturi represented the country’s churches. He is a member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches and chair of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission for Unity, Faith, and Order. Kathryn Tanner
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Rowan
Williams has given a
number of interviews and public
speeches about world economic
matters in Europe. An
accomplished scholar, teacher,
and writer, his conversations
with experts in politics,
economics, the environment, and
world health in 2004 were
published as The Worlds We
Live in: Dialogues with Rowan
Williams on Global Economics and
Politics. Williams is the
104th Archbishop of Canterbury
and guides the worldwide
Anglican Communion. 
Sir
Partha Dasgupta is the
author of Economics: A Very
Short Introduction and Human
Well-Being and the Natural
Environment. As the Frank
Ramsey Professor of Economics at
the University of Cambridge, his
cutting-edge research covers
welfare and development
economics; the economics of
technological change; and
population, environmental, and
resource economics. 
Kathryn Tanner’s most recent book, Economy of Grace, explores the intersections between theology and economics. She practices constructive Christian theology in the Protestant tradition. Her intent is to address contemporary challenges to belief through the creative use of both the history of Christian thought and interdisciplinary methods, such as critical, social, and feminist theory. Tanner is Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School.