Reverend Dr Patrick McInerney graduated from the Pontifical Institute for the Study of Arabic and Islamics in Rome (1986), the Melbourne College of Divinity (2003) and the Australian Catholic University (2009). He is Director of the Columban Mission Institute, Coordinator of its Centre for Christian–Muslim Relations and a staff member of its Centre for Mission Studies. He teaches Interreligious Dialogue and Islam at the Catholic Institute of Sydney and the Broken Bay Institute and talks on Islam, Christian–Muslim relations and interreligious relations to a wide variety of audiences.