Dr. Rupen Das

Academic Credentials

DMin, Acadia Divinity College, Acadia University, 2014
MA, Syracuse University, 1979
BSc, Syracuse University, 1977

Certificate Disaster Management, University of Wisconsin
Certificate in Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
Certificates in Evaluating and Managing Evaluations of Humanitarian Action, ALNAP, UK

Areas of Specialization

Missions; global Christianity; the local church in the global South and international development; the interface of theology, poverty, compassion and social justice

Biography

Dr. Das is Research Professor at Tyndale University and the Executive Director of the
Canadian Bible Society.

Previously he was on secondment from the Canadian Baptist Ministries to the European Baptist Federation (EBF) and also faculty in the Manchester MA program at the International Baptist Theological Study Center (IBTSC) based in Amsterdam. Prior to that he was the Program Director for the MRel in Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the Institute for Middle East Studies, Beirut, Lebanon and with the Lebanese Baptists heading their humanitarian response to the Syrian refugees.

Dr. Das was professor and Program Coordinator of International Project Management at Humber College in Toronto.  He has extensive experience in humanitarian assistance and development, having been the Director for Emergency Response and Disaster Mitigation at World Vision Canada, WV's Field Director for the South Pacific, based in Papua New Guinea and Project Manager in Russia (a USAID project) and in Belarus (Chernobyl project).  He has been involved in emergency responses in Kosovo, East Timor, India, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, among others.  He was part of the Canadian team that did the pre-war assessment of the potential impact of war on the civilian population of Iraq in 2003.

As a consultant he has worked on projects for the Canadian Government, the Canadian CIMIC and DART, Pearson Peacekeeping Center, Plan Canada, Focus Humanitarian (part of the Aga Khan Network), World Vision International, International Development Support Services (IDSS Australia), among others. He has been adjunct faculty at Eastern University in the US. As an analyst he contributed to Oxford Analytica on humanitarian issues. Previously, he had been on staff with the Navigators.

Dr. Das has been a 21st Century Fellow in the UK, an Ashoka Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.

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