Nationality Indian Name Jetti Oliver | ||
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Fields Microeconomics, Rural development | ||
Jetti Alfred Oliver is the current President of Church History Association of India (CHAI). He was recently elected to the 10 member international governing council of the Society for International Development (SID).
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Early life
Oliver was born in Raigudem village of Khammam district in Telangana, India. He obtained his doctorate in Development Economics from Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University in 1970.
Associated Organizations
Oliver worked as Director of the Socio-economic Board of Diocese of Dornakal of the Church of South India, with headquarters in Dornakal for 10 years. Later he served in various leadership roles such as Director of the Centre for Promoters of Rural Development (CPRD), Chairman of the Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCA) of the South East India Region, President of the Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), and state representative of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI).
Oliver also represented the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Council of Churches in the Board of Governors of the near-ecumenical Protestant Regional Theologiate, the Andhra Christian Theological College, Secunderabad comprising some of the Protestant Church Societies - the Methodists, Lutherans, Baptists, and the Anglicans, Congregationalists and the Wesleyan Methodists from the time when the Theologiate was led by The Rev. S. Joseph, STBC followed by The Rev. M. Victor Paul, AELC and the successive Principalships.
Espousing the cause of the Bible, Oliver has also been in the leadership of the Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary from the time when the Auxiliary was led by The Rev. Lella Prakasam, CBCNC and after its bifurcation in 2016, he continues to be associated with the Bible Society of India Telangana Auxiliary headquartered in Secunderabad.