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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.

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.

Dr. John Borelli, a historian of religions and theologian, is special assistant for Catholic identity and dialogue to President John J. DeGioia of Georgetown University. Borelli has been at Georgetown University since 2004, where he teaches, manages conferences and events, coordinates dialogues, facilitates workshops, and promotes university relations with offices and institutes of the Holy See.

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.

John J. DeGioia is the forty-eighth president of Georgetown University. For nearly four decades, DeGioia has worked to define and strengthen Georgetown University as a premier institution for education and research. As the first lay president of a Jesuit university he places emphasis on sustaining and strengthening Georgetown’s Catholic and Jesuit identity and its responsibility to serve as a voice and an instrument for justice. He has also been an advocate for interreligious dialogue. He continues to teach an Ignatius Seminar each fall, part of a program offering first year students the opportunity to encounter unique courses of study inspired by the Jesuit educational theme of cura personalis (“care for the whole person”). He is a member of the Order of Malta, a lay religious order of the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to serving the sick and the poor. Before becoming president, DeGioia served at Georgetown as senior vice president, responsible for university-wide operations, and dean of student affairs. DeGioia earned his B.A. and Ph.D at Georgetown University.

Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky is Senior Fellow at Harvard University's JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and is Chair of the National Board of the World Affairs Councils of America. She previously served as under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs from May 2001 to January 2009. She was designated as the special coordinator for Tibetan Issues, and in February 2007, she was appointed the president's special envoy to Northern Ireland, with the rank of ambassador. Dr. Dobriansky received a B.S.F.S. summa cum laude from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Soviet political/military affairs from Harvard University.

Father J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; he is also the secretary of health and social services in the Archdiocese of Boston. His teaching and research focus on ethics and foreign policy and the role of religion in world politics and in American society.

Dr. Maryann Cusimano Love is a tenured professor of international relations at the Catholic University of America and an expert on international security and peacebuilding. She is a consultant to the Holy See Mission at the United Nations and a board member of the Arms Control Association and the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. She earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and her research focuses on just peace and just war, nuclear disarmament, religious actors and transnational networks, globalization, normative change. Recent publications include her book Global Issues Beyond Sovereignty (2020).