Berkley Center

Rev. Andrew (Drew) Christiansen, S.J., was Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs from 2013 until his death in April 2022. His areas of research included nuclear disarmament, nonviolence and just peacemaking, Catholic social teaching, and ecumenical public advocacy. He was a frequent consultant to the Holy See and a member of the steering committee of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. He also served on the Atlantic Council's Middle East Task Force and on the Holy See delegation that participated in the negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons during summer 2017.

John J. DeGioia is the forty-eighth president of Georgetown University. For nearly four decades, DeGioia has worked to define and strengthen Georgetown University as a premier institution for education and research. As the first lay president of a Jesuit university he places emphasis on sustaining and strengthening Georgetown’s Catholic and Jesuit identity and its responsibility to serve as a voice and an instrument for justice. He has also been an advocate for interreligious dialogue. He continues to teach an Ignatius Seminar each fall, part of a program offering first year students the opportunity to encounter unique courses of study inspired by the Jesuit educational theme of cura personalis (“care for the whole person”). He is a member of the Order of Malta, a lay religious order of the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to serving the sick and the poor. Before becoming president, DeGioia served at Georgetown as senior vice president, responsible for university-wide operations, and dean of student affairs. DeGioia earned his B.A. and Ph.D at Georgetown University.

Francesca Drumm graduated from the Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2021 with a major in international politics and a minor in French. Growing up in the post-conflict society of Northern Ireland, Drumm has witnessed the courage it has taken for citizens to break away from the political and religious partisanship of the past to become a veritable community of peace. Drumm has actively represented the voices of young people through her role as a youth advocate with the Children’s Law Centre in Belfast and as an elected member of the United Kingdom Youth Parliament. She is the founder of the #whatsfordinner Foundation, which aims to tackle the issue of child food poverty. Drumm was also selected as a 2017 Young Global Changemaker. As a 2017-2018 Doyle Undergraduate Fellow, Drumm coupled her deep interest for social justice with interreligious engagement.

Irene Jillson is an associate professor in the Department of Professional Nursing Practice at Georgetown's School of Nursing & Health Studies, and she also teaches in the School of Medicine and Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her work has focused on issues ranging from information systems, behavioral health conditions, and bioethics to maternal and child health and HIV/AIDS.

Until his death in September 2019, Gerard Mannion was the Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University and a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center, where his work focused on the role of the church in the world, on social ethics, and on ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. Mannion published widely in the fields of ecclesiology, ethics, and public theology, as well as in other fields of systematic theology and philosophy. He was the founding chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network and president of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology (2017-2020). His numerous books included Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism: Evangelii Gaudium and the Papal Agenda (2017), Where We Dwell in Common: Pathways for Dialogue in the 21st Century (ed., 2015), The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church (2008, ed. with Lewis Mudge), Catholic Social Justice: Theological and Practical Explorations (2007, co-edited with Philomena Cullen and Bernard Hoose), Ecclesiology and Postmodernity: Questions for the Church in Our Times (2007), and Schopenhauer, Religion and Modernity (2003). He was also editor of the Bloomsbury Publishing series "Ecclesiological Investigations" and series editor, with Oxford University’s Mark Chapman, of Palgrave Macmillan’s “Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue” series.

Michael Tatham has been deputy ambassador from the United Kingdom to the United States since January 2018. He has completed a number of diplomatic postings and specialized in supporting post-communist transition processes and conflict resolution in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans.

Matt Torney is the associate artistic director of Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. Originally from Belfast, Torney worked as a freelance director in Ireland before completing an MFA at Columbia University. Torney also served as director of programming for New York City's Origin Theatre and as associate director of Dublin's Rough Magic Theatre Company.