| Kishore Jayabalan
Director of Acton Institute’s Rome office (Istituto Acton)
Kishore Jayabalan is the director of Acton Institute’s Rome
office, which is officially known as Istituto Acton. While in Rome,
Jayabalan will help to promote European religious heritage and its
moral foundation for human dignity and freedom.
Born in Chicago, Jayabalan grew up in Flint, Michigan, and graduated
from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in
political science and economics. After graduation, he worked as
an international economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics in
Washington, before attending the University of Toronto, where he
received a master’s in political science.
As a graduate student, Jayabalan also worked at the university’s
Newman Centre. He was then selected to be the first Newman Centre
intern to serve in the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See
to the United Nations in New York. Two years later, he returned
to Rome to work for the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
For five years, he served as the Holy See’s analyst on sustainable
development and arms control.
He was baptized, confirmed, and received his first communion from
Pope John Paul II, April 6, 1996, in St. Peter's Basilica.
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