Sr. Iona Misquitta, O.B.S., is the Prioress and Cellarer of Shanti Nilayam Abbey, Bangalore, India.

She was involved in Inter-Religious Dialogue in her early years at school and as a teacher in High School.

Her direct involvement in the Inter Monastic Dialogue started in November of 1992 with her first encounter with the Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in Dharamsala, H.P., North India.

She was later appointed as Co-ordinator of the Commission for the Benedictine Inter-Religious Dialogue in India.