Guila Clara Kessous is a specialist in Arts and Human Rights attached to intercultural and interreligious issues. She conceives drama as a socially conscious reflection pervading multiple aspects of society and culture. She has co-produced and directed over 20 shows, with a specific emphasis on interfaith dialogue. As an actress, she has benefited from her American and European theatrical approaches working with many renowned artists and authors: John Malkovich, Eve Ensler, Jean Claude Grumberg, Theodore Bikel, James Taylor, Francis Huster,…  She holds a Master in Pedagogy from Sorbonne, an MBA in cultural business from ESSEC Business School and a PhD from Boston University under the mentorship of Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner staging all his published and unpublished theatre work. Recipient of two awards for Excellence in Teachingfrom the Harvard University Bok Center, she created theseminar “Theater and Human  Rights” at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy Schooland at the Political Sciences Institute in Paris. She initiated the program « Peace through the Performing Arts »  at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sponsored by actor Billy Crystal. She is the co-founder of the Centerfor Promotion of Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue and Gender Equality which will serve as an authoritative node for a network of scientific scholars and religious communities dealing with intercultural and interreligious research and dialogue in Geneva. Kessous is a member of the ARIAS laboratory (CNRS/Paris III/ENS) as an associate researcher and holds a Post-doctorate scholarship from the Foundation for Research and Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (FIIRD) at the University of Geneva. She has been a research associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for Gender Studies in 2011 working on « Religiosity, Theatre and Femininity ». She has been nominated « Officier des Arts et Lettres », an Officier in the Order of Arts and Literature by the French Ministry of Culture for her work on the influence of French culture overseas. For her dedication in Arts and Human Rights, she was awarded the title of UNESCO Artist for Peace for uniting Ethics with  Aesthetics. She is the author of "Theatre andSacred in Jewish Tradition" forwarded by Elie Wiesel (FrenchUniversity Press, 2012) and is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Divinity School to work on interreligious dialogue through art performance.