Berkley Center

Thomas Banchoff is director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and serves as vice president for global engagement at Georgetown University, where he is a professor in the Department of Government and the Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is a co-convener of the Georgetown Global Dialogues and co-chairs the Task Force on Global Citizenship of the International Association of Jesuit Universities.

W. Cole Durham, Jr. is emeritus professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University, where he held the Susa Young Gates University Professorship. He is also founding director of the Clark Law School’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS) and president of the G20 Interfaith Association. He has been heavily involved in comparative law scholarship, with a special emphasis on comparative constitutional law, and is known for his contributions to protecting religious freedoms. He is co-editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion and the Encyclopedia of Law and Religion (2016) and co-author of Law and Religion: National, International and Comparative Perspectives (second ed. 2019) and Religious Organizations and the Law (2024).

Dr. Mohamed Elsanousi is the executive director of the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, a global network that builds bridges between grassroots peacemakers and global players to work towards sustainable peace. He previously was the director of interfaith and government relations for the Islamic Society of North America.

John C. Havens was the founding executive director of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems which was responsible for creating Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. John helped create the IEEE 7000 Standards Series, the largest suite of international standards focused on Artificial Intelligence and ethical/societal issues to date. 

John is also the global staff director for The IEEE Planet Positive 2030 Program that produced the Compendium document, "Strong Sustainability by Design: Prioritizing Ecosystem and Human Flourishing with Technology-Based Solutions that inspired the creation of the IEEE 7800 Standards Series" focused on sustainability and is the author of, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity To Maximize Machines, Hacking Happiness: Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World, and Tactical Transparency: How Leaders Can Leverage Social Media to Maximize Value and Build their Brand.

Azza Karam is president and CEO of Lead Integrity, the first global, women-of-faith-led consultancy with a Roster of Experts in human rights, peace and security, sustainable development and humanitarian relief, from over 50 countries. She serves as the director of Occidental College's flagship Kahane United Nations Program. She is a member of the United Nations' Secretary-General High Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism. During three decades of work in and with the United Nations, she coordinated UNDP’s Arab Human Development Reports and founded and led the United Nations Interagency Task Force on Religion and Development, as well as its Multi-Faith Advisory Council. She was professor of religion and development at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has penned multiple publications translated into several languages. Egyptian-born, she has worked in Africa, the Arab world, and Europe; she lives in the United States. Karam is a a member of the Strategic Religious Engagement Hub Advisory Board, an initiative hosted by the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Eric LeCompte is the executive director of Jubilee USA Network, a development coalition of more than 750 religious groups and organizations. For more than 30 years, he has led religious groups to win policies that alleviate poverty, address global conflict, and promote human rights. LeCompte frequently addresses and advises governments, global institutions, United Nations fora and interfaith religious groups on pandemic response and needed economic and climate policies.

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.

Michael Matheson Miller is the chief of strategic initiatives, senior research fellow, and director of the Center for Social Flourishing at the Acton Institute.