Arvind Sharma, formerly of the I.A.S., is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has published extensively in the fields of Indology and Comparative Religion, and is currently engaged in promoting the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's Religions. He was the co-convenor of the congress on World's Religions After September 11: An Asian Perspective, which met in Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi in January, 2009.
