Gustavo Correa
Gustavo Correa | |
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| Born | Gustavo Correa Lizcano c. 1948 |
| NSA member | Colombia 1978 - 1988 |
| Counsellor | Americas 1988 - 2005 |
| ITC member | 2005 - 2008 |
| UHJ member | 2008 - 2018 |
Dr. Gustavo Correa is a Colombian Bahá’í who served on the Universal House of Justice, the International Teaching Center, and as a Continental Counselor for the Americas.
Background[edit]
In his youth Correa studied mathematics as the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, completing an undergraduate degree and he then moved to the United States where he completed a Masters degree in Public Administration at Harvard. He then returned to Colombia where he was employed as a Professor of mathematics at the Universidad del Valle.[1]
Correa assisted Farzam Arbab in establishing the Bahá’í inspired non-governmental organization FUNDAEC in 1974,[2] and he was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Colombia in 1978. He served on the National Spiritual Assembly until 1988 when he was appointed as a Continental Counselor for the Americas and he was also appointed Director of FUNDAEC the same year. In 2005 Correa was appointed to the International Teaching Center and moved to the Holy Land to serve on the body. He was then elected to the Universal House of Justice in 2008 and served on the body until retiring in 2018.[1]
Publications[edit]
- 2020 - Community and Collective Action, article published at Bahá'í World.[3]
Talks[edit]
- 1983 - FUNDAEC: Case Study in an Alternative for Rural Development
- 2008 - Working for Betterment of Society
- 2018 - Talk at Dedication of the Colombia House of Worship (in Spanish)
Notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Grand Canyon Baha'i Conference Presenters biographies". Archived from the original on 2022-03-06. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
- ↑ "Club of Budapest". Archived from the original on 2011-11-12. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
- ↑ https://bahaiworld.bahai.org/library/community-and-collective-action/
References[edit]
- "Baha'is elect Universal House of Justice". Bahá’í World News Service. 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
