Faisal Ilyas is Executive Director of Peace Hope Pakistan in Lahore, Pakistan. Ilyas holds a degree in the Studies of Peace and Counter Terrorism from Minhaj University in Lahore. In 2012, he joined Caritas Pakistan Lahore, a social wing of the Catholic Church, as a Project Manager, where he trained Christian students/school dropouts in various trades. He worked as a Programs Manager at the National Catholic Commission for Inter-religious Dialogues & Ecumenism from 2013 to 2015. Ilyas also served at Peace Center Lahore, a Dominican Catholic Center bringing healing, reconciliation, tolerance, counter violence, positive understanding and good will among believers of all religions.