David Porter -

David Porter has recently been appointed as Director of the International Centre for Reconciliation and Canon Director of Reconciliation Ministries at Coventry Cathedral.

He is also the former Director of the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland.  As Director he had particular responsibility for the organisation’s contribution to the Irish peace process and remains responsible for the Centre's ongoing contribution to public policy debate on human rights, equality and good relations.  

An honours graduate in Theology from the London School of Theology, for eight years he was a visiting lecturer in Missiology at Belfast Bible College and has completed a Masters in Peace Studies at the University of Ulster. 

In 2000 he was appointed a member of the Northern Ireland Civic Forum set up under the 1998 Belfast Agreement as a consultative body to the Assembly and also serves on the Truth Recovery and Acknowledgement Sub Group of the Healing through Remembering Project. 

His previous work also includes eleven years with Interserve, an international Christian mission working in South Asia and the Middle East as well as two years in community relations work with the YMCA in Belfast.

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