Barbara G. Green

The Reverend Barbara G. Green "is Executive Director of the Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy in Washington, DC, a post she has held since 1998.

"Under her leadership, the Center has expanded to include the Nuclear Reduction/Disarmament Initiative. Before coming to the Center, for 15 years she was a policy advocate for the Presbyterian Church (USA) in its Washington Office, where she specialized in international relations and security policy. From 1977 to 1981 she was posted by the National Council of Churches to Berlin, Germany as its liaison to the Federation of Protestant Churches in the German Democratic Republic (East).

"A scholar in the life and work of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, she is translator of his book, Discipleship. She chairs the international advisory committee of the German Kirchentag movement. She is author of numerous articles and co-author of Lines in the Sand: Justice and the Gulf War.

"She is a graduate of the College of Wooster and Yale University Divinity School, including two years of graduate study at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She and her husband, Dr. Alan Geyer, are parents of two children."


 * Steering Committee, Muslim-Christian Initiative on the Nuclear Weapons Danger