Dr John Honner has been Deputy President of EREA Council since 2016 and a member of Council since 2013. John had worked for the Christian Brothers at MacKillop Family Services in Melbourne and Edmund Rice Community Services in Sydney. John is also a theologian, having been Rector of Jesuit Theological College, Editor of Pacifica: Australian Theological Studies, and has taught at the University of Divinity and the Australian Catholic University. John is currently a member of faculty of BBI-TAITE, The Australian Institute of Theological Education.