Dr Amineh Hoti has over 20 years of experience leading interfaith dialogue, conflict mediation, and community engagement throughout the world. She has served as a peace studies director, professor, and researcher for more than two decades and has extensive leadership experience on several continents. She was the Executive Director of the Centre for Dialogue and Action and co-founding Director of the first Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Cambridge and of the Centre for Dialogue and Action at Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She has completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at Lucy and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham.
She was appointed Program Director of the Seerat Centre at the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Governor responsible for overseeing EDI initiatives for St Mary’s School in Cambridge, Executive Director of Markaz-e-Ilm, the Centre for Dialogue & Action in Islamabad, and a consultant to the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect.
Cambridge University Press published her anthropological study, Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women, and in 2021, she published Gems and Jewels: The Religions of Pakistan, among several other publications.
