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Theologian, engaged intellectual, proponent of interfaith dialogue, friend. The strength of the InterAction Council is the interplay between men and women who know the ways of power and world class intellectual experts who bring their insights and frameworks into the world of policy analysis. His disputes with the Vatican hierarchy were certainly long lasting and took an emotional toll on him personally, but he never backed away from his beliefs.

Born into a large Swiss family, the eldest of five sisters and a brother, Hans decided to become a priest early on, leaving his girlfriend, he writes in his memoirs, after only one kiss. Despite later controversies with the Vatican, Hans never left the priesthood though he developed a distinctive style of his own, favouring well cut suits rather than the vestments, driving a sports car and enjoying a glass of wine at the receptions of the Council.

In recent years illness prevented Hans from travelling but he still was alive with ideas and was often in contact about the agenda of the Council. Former US President Jimmy Carter once attended a plenary meeting of the Council for the explicit reason that he learned that a paper by Hans was on the agenda. The InterAction Council cherishes his contributions and grieves that he is no longer with us.