Speakers' Bios
Amanda Jackson
Amanda is the WEA’s Senior Advisor on Diversity and from 2015 to 2022 was the Director of the Women’s Commission. She is one of the pioneers of Rise in Strength, a network of international Christian women leaders. She founded the global Christian Network to End Domestic Abuse (CNEDA). She is the Chair of Kyria Network UK, which aims to equip and develop healthy female leadership. She also works with a mission agency developing church planters in the majority Moslem world. Amanda trains and serves women in leadership – teaching on Biblical equality and strengthening regional networks of women. She helps men and women to work together more effectively. Amanda has experience in church planting in London and Sydney; she was the Director of a development charity in Australia and the founding Director of Micah Challenge Australia. She has an MA in English Literature (Sydney University) and postgraduate diplomas in education (Macquarie University) and media (Birkbeck College, London).
Asia Williamson
Asia is a graduate from Harvard University Kennedy School of Public Leadership and the director of the MA program in Public Service Leadership in the UK. In 2005 Asia and her husband Mark founded One Rock International that provides spiritual formation, leadership and mentoring for young generations in the marketplace www.onerockinternational.com. Alongside her work with One Rock, Asia is a lecturer in theology and leadership both in the UK and the USA, she is an author of two biographies and is currently working on her third book. She is the Leadership Development Catalyst for Lausanne Movement, seats on the executive team for Young Generations at Lausanne and helps with intergenerational work among the Lausanne Issue network groups. Asia is the CWR Asia Director, envisioning and leading the work of a non-profit registered in Singapore and founded by Selwyn Hugh the author of Everyday With Jesus.