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Gretchen Bachman is the senior advisor on orphans and vulnerable children within the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy in the U.S. Department of State. She is also a leadership committee member of Together for Girls and a founding member of the Better Care Network.

Philip Goldman is the co-founder and president of Maestral International. He is also a member of the Lancet Commission on the Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization of Children, for which he co-authored a paper on global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and the death of caregivers.

Gillian Huebner is the executive director of the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues at Georgetown University. Huebner's work has focused on supporting the development, strengthening, and coordination of programs and systems to enhance community-based and nationally-owned approaches to building young people’s resilience and supporting children at risk. She has done this work at home and abroad with the UN, the U.S. government, private foundations, multiple non-governmental organizations, and as an independent consultant. Huebner is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Aniruddha Kulkarni is a child protection specialist and UNICEF’s global lead on child protection systems. He has served UNICEF for fifteen years. Prior to this, he served as the senior research coordinator at College of Social Work Nirmala Niketan in Mumbai, India.

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.