Govert Buijs PhD holds the Kuyper Chair for political philosophy in relation to religion at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, VU University, Amsterdam. Next to this he holds the Goldschmeding Research Chair on ’economics and civil society’. At the Erasmus University Rotterdam he lectures in Christian Philosophy. He studied political science, philosophy and theology at various institution in the Netherlands and Canada. His main interests are religion in the public square, religion in relation to civil society and the relation between morality and economics. In 2003 he won the Savornin Lohman Price for political and social theory in relation to Christianity. He is co-founder of Èthos, a recently founded Dutch platform for research and public debate on societal developments.
Annette Mosher PhD is currently employed at VU University Amsterdam as Assistant Professor of Ethics within the Faculty of Theology where she has served since 2005. With fourteen years experience in the field of education, Annette specializes in the interaction of nature religions with environmental ethics, as well as religion and issues of justice, and ecofeminism.