Charles Chilufya SJ

Director of the JCAM Justice and Ecology Office (JEO)

Fr. Charles Chilufya is coordinating the Jubilee Coalition for debt cancellation in Africa and works for the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar (JCAM) as director of the JCAM Justice and Ecology Office (JEO) since 2018. The JCAM Justice and Ecology Office works to foster and coordinate the Jesuits’ work in economic, social, migration, gender and climate justice in Africa. JEO is a vital Jesuit interface between global policies in the economic, social and environmental spheres and local issues confronting populations in Africa. JEO also works to foster collaboration among apostolic sectors in what concerns justice and ecology. Prior to his current appointment, Fr. Chilufya served at the Copperbelt University, a public university in Zambia, where he worked in the School of Business and as the University Chaplain. In the School of Business Fr Chilufya taught research methods in business and economics as well as history of economic thought.