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Anthony Clark Arend is professor of government and foreign service and chair of the Department of Government at Georgetown University, where he previously served as senior associate dean for graduate and faculty affairs in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. His research and teaching is in the fields of international law, national security law, international legal theory, and human rights.

Nicole Bibbins Sedaca is a professor of the practice of international relations and serves as the concentration chair for global politics and security in the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program in the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She served for 10 years in the United States Department of State, working on democracy promotion, human rights, human trafficking, religious freedom, refugees, women's issues, and counterterrorism.

Michael Kessler is executive director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, a professor of the practice of moral and political theory in the Department of Government, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law. Kessler’s research and writing focus on theology, philosophical and religious ethics, and social, political, and legal theory. He is interested in problems of law and religion, both globally and in the U.S. constitutional context. Kessler is the author of several edited volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Political Theology, co-edited with Shaun Casey (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); Political Theology for a Plural Age (Oxford University Press, 2013); and Mystics: Presence and Aporia, co-edited with Christian Sheppard (University of Chicago Press, 2003). He also wrote “Engaging Religion in U.S. Foreign Affairs,” a chapter in the Companion to Religion and Politics in the United States (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). Kessler is a member of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Mark P. Lagon is chief policy officer at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is also adjunct professor, Centennial Fellow, and Distinguished Senior Scholar in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. Lagon previously was president of Freedom House and served as U.S. ambassador-at-large, directing the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.