Jesuit Father Julio Giulietti grew up in New York City and was ordained a priest on May 27, 1972. He has more than 30 years of experience in higher learning in the United States and abroad. Prior to becoming the eighth President of Wheeling Jesuit University, he spent six years as Director of the Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Boston College, where he worked primarily with faculty and staff in spirituality and personal development. He directed the Lilly Foundation funded “Intersections Project — Faculty and Staff Seminars.”

Father Giulietti was also the Director at Georgetown University’s Center for Intercultural Education and Development from 1991-2001. In this position he directed Georgetown’s educational and leadership programs in 18 developing countries in Southeast Asia, South and Central America and Eastern Europe. From 1982 to 1990, Giulietti served at Boston College where he taught in the theology department, founded the undergraduate interdisciplinary minor “The Program for the Study of Faith, Peace and Justice,” and formed the Boston College International Volunteer Program, which later became the Jesuit Volunteer International.

Seminars and retreats on Ignatian spirituality and lay ministry in the United States and abroad have long been part of Giulietti's ministry. He has served on a number of national boards and was a consultant to the Daughters of Charity Health Care System. He was a founding member of Partners in Health. Presently, Giulietti serves on the boards of the National Catholic Reporter newspaper and Partners in Health. Other experience includes communication, leadership and management training for a variety of professionals in developing countries. He also spent seven years working in Japan.

Giulietti has graduate degrees in theology, comparative religions and counseling, and completed a doctorate degree at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass.

Father Giulietti has been president of Wheeling Jesuit University for two years.

Posted June 2009.