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Ilan Alon is professor of strategy and international marketing at the University of Agder, Norway. Previously he was the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Chair of International Business and director of the China and India centers at Rollins College. He was also a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Alon is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Emerging Markets; his numerous edited publications include China Rules: Globalization and Political Transformation (2009) and Globalization of Chinese Enterprises (2008). Alon’s education and consulting experiences in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and America range from government institutions and multinational companies to small and medium enterprises and individual executives. Alon received the Chinese Marketing Award, a dual award from the Tripod Marketing Association (China) and the Society for Marketing Advances (USA). He was an associate scholar with the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project from 2014 to 2016. Alon holds a B.S. and M.B.A. from Farleigh Dickinson University, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. from Kent State University.

John J. DiIulio, Jr. is the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty director of the Fox Leadership Program and the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS). Prior to Penn, he was a Princeton University professor in the Woodrow Wilson School. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has directed research centers at several leading think tanks. He has developed mentoring, literacy, and other public-private programs that benefit low-income communities. DiIulio served as assistant to President George W. Bush and first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives; he assisted the Obama administration in reconstituting that office. His numerous publications include a leading textbook, American Government (Cengage, 2016) and Bring Back the Bureaucrats (Templeton, 2014). He is a Catholic in the Jesuit tradition. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

Thomas F. Farr is president emeritus of the Religious Freedom Institute, an NGO committed to achieving worldwide acceptance of religious liberty. Farr is also a senior fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. From 2006 to 2018 he was an associate professor of the practice of religion and world affairs at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and senior fellow at the Berkley Center; during 2017 and 2018 he was director of the Religious Freedom Research Project and from 2011 to 2016 director of the Religious Freedom Project, both at the Berkley Center. After a distinguished career in the U.S. Army and the Foreign Service—which included teaching at West Point and the Air Force Academy, serving as an advisor during U.S.-Soviet arms control talks in Geneva, and leading an interagency task force on verification provisions for the START II Treaty—Farr served as the first director of the U.S. State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2003.

Stephen Fields, S.J., is an associate professor of the philosophy of religion and systematic theology at Georgetown University. He teaches on subjects including the history of Christian thought, Christian mysticism, and transcendental Thomism. Fields has also taught at Santa Clara University, Saint Joseph’s University, and Fordham University and served as president of the Jesuit Philosophical Association. He is the author of Analogies of Transcendence: An Essay on Nature, Grace and Modernity (2016) and Being As Symbol: On the Origins and Development of Karl Rahner’s Metaphysics (2000), as well as numerous journal articles and chapters in edited books. Fields received degrees from Loyola College, Oxford University, Fordham University, and Yale University.

Anthony (Tony) Gill is a professor of political science and adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Washington and a distinguished senior fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. He specializes in political economy and religion and politics, with an emphasis on church-state relations, religious liberty, and religious economies. Gill’s current research focuses on how governments regulate religious organizations and how this impacts the level of religiosity in society. He is author of The Political Origins of Religious Liberty (2007) and Rendering Unto Caesar: The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America (1998). In addition to numerous other publications, he runs a weekly free podcast series that seeks to make social scientific studies of religion more accessible to the public. From 2014 to 2016, he was an associate scholar with the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project. Gill received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and B.A. from Marquette University.

Brian Grim is president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation and a leading expert on the socioeconomic impact of restrictions on religious freedom and international religious demography. Grim served as 2015-2016 chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Role of Faith and works closely with the Business for Peace platform of the United Nations Global Compact. From 2006 to 2014 Grim directed the largest social science effort to collect and analyze global data on religion at the Pew Research Center. He also worked for two decades as an educator in the former Soviet Union, China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. He is author of numerous articles and books, including The Price of Freedom Denied (2010), and writes the Weekly Number blog. He was an associate scholar with the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project from 2014 to 2016. Grim holds a doctorate from the Pennsylvania State University.

Marci Hamilton is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program Professor of Practice and Fox Family Pavilion Resident Senior Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founder, CEO, and academic director of CHILD USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit academic think tank at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to interdisciplinary, evidence-based research to prevent child abuse and neglect.

William Inboden is executive director of the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security, associate professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and distinguished scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas-Austin. Inboden is a non-resident fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States and senior advisor with Avascent International. Previously he served as the Legatum Institute's senior vice president and senior director for the White House’s Strategic Planning on the National Security Council. Inboden also worked at the Department of State as a member of the Policy Planning Staff and special advisor in the Office of International Religious Freedom. He is the author of Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment (2008) and Foreign Policy magazine contributing editor. From 2014 to 2016, he was an associate scholar with the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project. Inboden received his Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. degrees from Yale University and A.B. from Stanford University.