Benedict Rattigan FRSA (Director) founded the Schweitzer Institute in 2004. As a philosopher, he is best known for developing dynamic symmetry theory, which proposes that complex systems - ranging from ecosystems and human societies - thrive by balancing order and chaos. Rattigan’s work has inspired conferences at the British Museum and Balliol College, a dedicated academic journal, and a Routledge book, written by a team of Oxford academics.
Gisella Marinuzzi (Associate Director) is an international lawyer proficient in five languages. A classically-trained pianist, her legal career spans practice in her native Italy as well as on Wall Street, and more recently in the UK. In addition to developing graduate study groups in Law and Politics, Gisella's expertise extends to formulating and implementing strategies to elevate animal welfare protection as a critical consideration in governmental policy-making.
Tabitha Mwangi is Programme Director at the Mastercard Foundation Program. She joined the University of Cambridge in 2021 as the Programme Manager of Cambridge-Africa. Prior to that she was Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Anglia Ruskin University, UK (2017-2020). Dr Mwangi started her higher education at the University of Nairobi. She worked as a research scientist for 10 years at the Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Program in Kilifi.
James Carleton Paget is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and Tutor of Peterhouse. Dr Carleton Paget is author of A Stranger and an Enigma: The Contexts and Contested Legacy of Albert Schweitzer (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament), and co-author, with Michael J. Thate, of Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action: A Life in Parts (Syracuse University Press)
Nicholas Kaye is Headmaster of Sussex House School, Chelsea. He read English at Cambridge and is a conductor, writer and lecturer on French music, specialising in revivals of forgotten settings of the Requiem Mass by French composers. He is a contributor to The New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He regularly visits Addis Ababa as a trustee of the Asra Harawiat School, has lectured on Victorian architecture and conducted tours of Tintoretto’s paintings in Venice.
The Schweitzer Institute Journal
Supervising Editors:
Gisella Marinuzzi
James Carleton Paget
Editorial Board:
Michael Thate (Princeton)
Predrag Cicovacki (Holy Cross, MA)
Christopher Rowland (Oxford)
Mark Edwards (Oxford)
Patti M. Marxsen