Berkley Center

 Dr. Francesco Cesareo is chair of the National Review Board of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). He is also president of Assumption College, and has held both faculty and administrative positions at several Catholic colleges and universities.

Kathleen Coogan is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in the Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution program. She also serves as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of State and is a parishioner and lay leader at Holy Trinity Catholic Church.

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. 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.

Rev. Gerard J. McGlone, S.J., Ph.D., is a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Previously he was an assistant professor of psychiatry in Georgetown University's School of Medicine. Most recently, he was the associate director for protection of minors for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. He was also recently the chief psychologist and the director of counseling services, as well as faculty and staff psychologist, at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He has been executive director at several major treatment centers for clergy and religious in the United States-Saint John Vianney Center and Guest House, Inc. McGlone is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Len Sperry, M.D., Ph.D. is professor and director of clinical training at Florida Atlantic University and clinical professor of psychiatry and behavior medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He serves as chair of the National Advisory Council of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, writes about priests and ministry issues, and consults with diocese and religious institutes.