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.

Wai Wai Nu is the founder and executive director of the Women Peace Network in Myanmar. A former political prisoner, her work focuses on democracy and human rights. Nu holds a master of laws degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ali Riaz is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. He has previously taught at universities in England, South Carolina, and Bangladesh. He is a nonresident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council and the president of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS). Riaz earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii under the East West Center fellowship.

Dr. Dina Siddiqi is a clinical associate professor at New York University. Her research focuses on the study of Bangladesh, development studies, transnational feminist theory, and the anthropology of Islam and human rights. She is on the executive committee of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS).

M. Arsalan Suleman (SFS’03) is a non-resident fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and a counsel in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation & Arbitration practice. He is the former acting U.S. special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Razia Sultana is a Rohingya lawyer, researcher, and educator specializing in trauma, mass rape, and trafficking of Rohingya girls and women. She is Rohingya, born in Maugdaw, Rakhine state, and now practices law in Bangladesh.