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Lord George Carey of Clifton is president of the United Church Schools Trust and United Learning. He is also a presentation fellow of King’s College London, fellow of Christ’s University College, Canterbury, and fellow at the U.S. Library of Congress. Carey was enthroned as the one hundred and third archbishop of Canterbury in 1991. After his 2002 retirement he was chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire until 2010 and also served as president of the London School of Theology. From 2004 to 2010 he was co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Council of 100 Leaders, promoting understanding and dialogue between the Western and Islamic worlds. Carey has served as chair of the trustees of the World Faiths Development Dialogue since April 2003. His publications include The Gate of Glory (1992), Why I Believe in a Personal God: The Credibility of Faith in a Doubting Culture (2000), the autobiographical Know the Truth: A Memoir (2004), and We Don’t Do God (2012, with son Andrew Carey).

Rev. Andrew (Drew) Christiansen, S.J., was Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs from 2013 until his death in April 2022. His areas of research included nuclear disarmament, nonviolence and just peacemaking, Catholic social teaching, and ecumenical public advocacy. He was a frequent consultant to the Holy See and a member of the steering committee of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. He also served on the Atlantic Council's Middle East Task Force and on the Holy See delegation that participated in the negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons during summer 2017.

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.

Jacqueline Ogega, Ph.D, has over 20 years of experience in managing international development projects on women’s empowerment, child safeguarding, protection, education, training and policy development. She is the co-founder and president of Mpanzi Empowering Women and Girls. Ogega has worked for various humanitarian organizations including World Learning, Catholic Relief Services, Religions for Peace, Caritas, and the University of Nairobi. She established the African Women of Faith Network, a fundamental infrastructure for building multi-religious cooperation for action in Africa, while serving as the African Women’s project director at Religions for Peace in Africa. A survivor of violence, Ogega uses her personal narrative as a lens for her work. She has a doctorate in peace research, a masters in gender and development studies, a bachelors in education, and various advanced training. ​