FRANK KAUFMANN Ph.D.

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INTERRELIGIOUS RELATIONS • INTERNATIONAL PEACE INITIATIVES • TEACHING • TRAINING

RESEARCH • WRITING • EDITING

CEO ~ SENIOR EXECUTIVE ~ EDUCATION

Executive leadership in peace, international and interreligious relations
Teaching and training in diversity, conflict mediation, religion and interreligious relations

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
• Senior-level professional, not for profit, international, interreligious peace institutions, projects,
publications
• 30 years. Extensive line-of-fire experience. Scholarship. Executive leadership, corporate and
administrative experience
• Proven history of substantial reconciliation and dissolution of major, international conflict
situations
• Organizer, mediator, teacher-trainer
• University and Post Graduate teacher, Religion and Philosophy
• Writer, publisher, editor, books, periodical literature, on line publications
• Extensive international network of religious, social, political, and business leaders and scholars

• Organizational D e s i g n
• New Project Development
• Visionary Strategies
• Strategic Planning
Direction
• Relationship Building
• Team Building
• Staff Coaching &
Mentoring
• Training & Development
• Project Analysis, Return on
Investment , Pro je ct
R estruct ur ing
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
• Information Technology • World Religions
Initiatives
• Communications • Religious Authority
Technology and Design Structures
• Book Publications • Ecclesiastical Structures
• Periodical Literature • Interfaith Organization,
Publications Positions and Relations
• Promotional Literature • Peace Strategies
Implementation
• Electronic Media and • Strategic Alliances
Communications
• Crisis Diplomacy and
Negotiations
• Dialogue Moderation
 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Private Consultant, The Filial Group, New York, NY 2007 to Present
• Executive Training
• Project Design and Development
• Project Analysis
• International and Interreligious Relations and Networks
• Crisis Consultation in Conflict Environments
• Public Speaking and Seminars
• Corporate Research
• Professional Writing
• Published Writing
• International Trade

Director, Inter Religious Federation for World Peace, New York, NY, 1991 to Present
• Secured and Directed $3.4 m Annual Budget
• Retained and Directed 12 HQ staff
• Provided Executive Management for 23 Foreign Representatives
• Organized, Convened, Managed and Moderated Average of 20 Major, International Conferences a
Year
• Published (as publisher, not author), 23 Major Books on Religion, Conflict Resolution, Peace,
Interfaith Relations
• Dialogue and Alliance (below)
• Maintained Communications and Data for Approximately 8,000 Associates and Members of
IRFWP
• Crisis Negotiations and Diplomacy (Gulf War, Ayodhya Mosque, Abu Sayef, Ethiopia/Eritrea,
Israel/Palestine)
• Work in Refugee Camps (Croatia, Eritrea)

Editor in Chief, Dialogue and Alliance, New York, NY, 1998 to Present
• Award Winning, (From The American Association of Theological Libraries) Scholarly Journal on
Religion and Peace, Biannual since 1981

Editor in Chief, New World Encyclopedia, New York, NY, 2005 to Present
• Designed project proposal
• Secured and Directed a $2.3 million Annual Budget
• Retained and Managed Corporate Administration
• Designed Editorial and Production Concept
• Retained and Directed 12-Disciplines Editorial Board, 500 Writers and Contributors
• Designed and Developed “Virtual Presence” Management and Production Concept
• Secured Completion of 14,000 Articles Achieving 2008 Production Goal 56 days Ahead of
Deadline, 30% Over Production, 35% Under Budget
Adjunct Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Pace University, New York, NY 1992 – 1996
• Undergraduate classes at Urban and Suburban Pace University Campuses
◦ World Religions
◦ Introduction to Religious Studies
◦ Philosophy of Religion
• This work was interrupted by too much international travel

EDUCATION
• Doctor of Philosophy in Religion, Vanderbilt University , Nashville , TN 1985
• Master of Arts in Religion, Vanderbilt University , Nashville , TN 1982
• Bachelor of Science in Psychology, SUNY at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 1974

PUBLICATIONS

• Dialogue and Alliance, Biannual Scholarly Journal on Religion and Peace , Editor in Chief, 1998 to
Present
• Religion and Social Transformation in Southern Africa. Ed., Paragon House Publishers, 1999
• Christianity in the Americas: Ecumenical Essays, Ed., Paragon House Publishers, 1997
• Foundations of Modern Church History, Peter Lang Verlag, 1988
• Articles published, Available on Request
• Editorial, Opinion, and Commentary Published, Available on Request

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

• Advisory Board, Wholistic Peace Institute, Portland Oregon, 2008 to Present

• Advisory Board, Religion in Crisis Task Force, Houston, TX 1993 – Present
• Board Member, International Coalition for Religious Freedom, (Nor for Profit) Washington,
D.C., 1987 to 2008