Tad Mitsui

Before Tad Mitsui’s appointment to WUS International as associate secretary for East and Southern Africa, a position he held from 1975 to 1979, Tad taught at the University of Lesotho and chaired WUS Lesotho. He was detained and expelled from South Africa for his work with anti-apartheid organisations. After his WUS years he worked for the Canadian and World Council of Churches to support justice-oriented organisations in Southern Africa and Palestine. An ordained minister of the United Church of Canada, his pre-retirement job was the administrative head of the Synod of the United Church of Canada, Eastern Ontario and Quebec.