Imam Sikander Pathan

Sikander Pathan currently serves as a full-time Muslim Chaplain at HMP Feltham. He is the Regional Chaplain for London, and was the first non-Christian Chaplain to be employed at this level in England and Wales. He is also the Assistant Secretary of the Muslim Chaplains Association, which seeks to build bridges between offenders and their wider communities.

He has served as an assistant Imam and Madrassah Vice-Principal for eleven years, and has been a Chaplain for the NHS and HMPS for twenty years. He is also a trustee and one of the founding members of Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust, which was recognised for its work in 2007 by winning the Youth Justice Board's Award for Best Faith Alliance.

Judith Pfeiffer

Dr Judith Pfeiffer is a university lecturer in Arabic/Islamic History at the University of Oxford. Her research concentrates on the history of late medieval and early modern Islam, with a particular focus on the intellectual history of the 13th to 16th centuries. Having completed her M.A. at the University of Cologne and her doctorate at the University of Chicago, she has worked and studied for more than five years in the Middle East (Syria, Iran, and Turkey).

As a lecturer in Arabic/Islamic History, Dr Pfeiffer has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate classes, including historical texts in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish. She is an active supervisor and mentor of graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral students and researchers, and was instrumental in reforming the M.Phil. in Islamic Studies and History, which she coordinated for four years.

Roger Chester

Roger has been active in the voluntary sector for many years both in staff and governance roles. Currently he works for The Lion Heart Benevolent Fund as Head of Finance and Administration and has recently retired as the Chair of the Charity Finance Group. He is the Treasurer of the Charity Investors Group, Chair of the Association of Charitable Organisations Finance and Legal Group and is a Trustee of Sandwell Hospital League of Friends. Previously he has been active in the Mental Illness and Student's Union worlds.

His particular interests include using technology to drive organizations forward and longer term investments having taken part in the Endowment Asset Management Programme at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. An inveterate volunteer, he can be found most weekends making tea and coffee in the Patients Shop at Sandwell Hospital where he was born and bemoaning continuing increases in the price of chocolate.

Chris Hewer

Dr Chris Hewer comes from a background in Christian theology, education, Islamic studies and inter-faith studies and has worked in the field of Muslims in Britain and Christian-Muslim relations since 1986, first at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Selly Oak in Birmingham and from 1999 to 2005, as the Adviser on Inter-Faith Relations to the Bishop of Birmingham. From 2006-2010, he was the St Ethelburga Fellow in Christian-Muslim Relations in London, with a brief to deliver adult popular education courses, study days and talks around Greater London.  His current work is to teach study days and residential courses, and to develop written and electronic resources.