Berkley Center

Katherine Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, leads the center’s work on religion and global development. She is also a professor of the practice of development, conflict, and religion in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, teaching diverse courses on the ethics of development work and mentoring students at many levels. She helped to create and now serves as the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, an NGO that works to enhance bridges between different sectors and institutions. In September 2022, she was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Marshall has five decades of experience on a variety of development issues in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and the Middle East, particularly those facing the world’s poorest countries; one way she shares her expertise is through her blog Faith in Action. She was a World Bank officer from 1971 to 2006, and she led the World Bank’s faith and ethics initiative between 2000 and 2006. Marshall is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values and the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, both part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Donald McHenry was Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 1981 until his retirement in 2014. He was the US permanent representative to the United Nations from 1979 to 1981 and deputy US representative from 1977 to 1979. He has held a variety of positions in the US Department of State, as well as fellowships with the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations. McHenry has also held a number of board and trustee positions at both NGOs and businesses like the Coca-Cola Company. Upon his retirement, Georgetown University established the Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development. McHenry received his M.A. from Southern Illinois University.

Steven Radelet holds the Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development and is director of the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He serves as an economic advisor to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and is a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Radelet joined the Georgetown faculty in 2012 after serving as chief economist of USAID and senior advisor for development for then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton. He is the author or coauthor of several books and dozens of academic articles, including The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World (2015), Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries are Leading the Way (2010) and the textbook Economics of Development (2013, seventh edition). He holds Ph.D. and master's degrees in Public Policy from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Central Michigan University.