Join the Center for Christian Civics and Christians for Social Action for a live look at how the Christian faith can equip us to make government healthier at the national (and international!) level.

The evening will feature a presentation on the work Christian Civics and CSA are doing together, an invitation to partner in our work, and an exclusive talk from economist Nishan de Mel of Verité Research on the fruit that gets produced when we leave behind culture war thinking and start loving God with all our mind in the public square.

Shaped and convicted by his Christian faith, Nishan de Mel has implemented a first-of-its-kind approach to government debt. Working with lenders, bondholders and the Sri Lankan government, Nishan and his team created a solution that incentivizes both the government and the lenders to fight corruption and increase government transparency. (You can read more about it in Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg or the Financial Times.)

About Christian Civics

Since 2015, the Center for Christian Civics has equipped people of faith to think, speak and act differently in a deeply divided public square. Bringing together robust theology and concrete spiritual practice, their work promotes an approach to discipleship that makes our civic communities healthier while also witnessing effectively to our neighbors across the political spectrum. This return to in-person events marks the first opportunity DC-area congregants, ministry leaders and political professionals have had to connect with Christian Civics in person since March of 2020.

About Nishan de Mel

Nishan de Mel is an economist with extensive academic, policy and private sector experience. Nishan taught and researched economics at Oxford and Harvard universities. In the 1990s, he sat on multiple Presidential Task Forces in Sri Lanka, playing an instrumental role in designing national policies on Health Sector Reform, Social Security and Tobacco & Alcohol. He also served as the Executive Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. He sits on multiple private sector boards and consults regularly as a strategist for some of the region’s largest firms. Nishan completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, and his graduate studies at Oxford University, where he was a Chevening Scholar.

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