Thandi Soko-de Jong is the co-moderator of the WCC gender justice reference group. She is a Malawian-Dutch activist-theologian. She is a PhD candidate at the Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands where the focus of her studies is within Intercultural theology. She holds degrees in African Studies (African studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University, the Netherlands), Theology and Development (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), and Biblical Studies and Mass Communications (African Bible College, Malawi).