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Philip A. Cunningham is a professor of theology and the co-director of the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations of Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With a background in biblical studies and religious education, he specializes in theologies of the Christian and Jewish—and especially the Catholic-Jewish—relationship and has written or co-edited over 10 books and dozens of articles and book chapters. Most recently, he authored Maxims for Mutuality: Principles for Catholic Theology, Education, and Preaching about Jews and Judaism (2022) and co-edited Enabling Dialogue about the Land: A Resource Book for Jews and Christians (2020). Cunningham is an honorary president of the International Council of Christians and Jews and has served on the Advisory Committee on Catholic-Jewish Relations for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is also the webmaster of the Internet library Dialogika of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations.

Ambassador (Ret.) Zion Evrony has held several diplomatic positions in Israel’s Foreign Service, including ambassador to the Holy See; ambassador to Ireland; consul general in Houston, Texas; director of the cadet course for new diplomats; head of the research team on Iran; and head of the Policy Planning Bureau. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Center for Jewish Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He was previously a visiting lecturer at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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.

Archbishop Flavio Pace has served as titular archbishop of Dolia and secretary of the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity since February 2024. He was ordained a priest by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, archbishop of Milan, and served as parish vicar in Abbiategrasso from June 2002 to September 2011, engaging in youth ministry, teaching Catholic religion in secondary schools, and serving as chaplain at the hospice. Within the congregation (later dicastery) for the Eastern Churches, he served as secretariat attaché from 2011 to 2020, and in February 2020 he was appointed under-secretary. He received episcopal ordination from Archbishop Mario Delpini in May 2024 in Milan Cathedral. He obtained a certification in Islamic studies from the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome in the academic year 2009-2010. From 2011 to 2014, he attended the licentiate cycle courses at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Liturgical Section of the Faculty of Eastern Ecclesiastical Sciences.

Rabbi Dr. David Fox Sandmel is the president of the International Council of Christians and Jews. He is the immediate past chair of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations. From 2014 to 2022 he was the director of interreligious engagement at the Anti-Defamation League. He previously held the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago (2002-2014) and was a Jewish scholar at the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies in Baltimore (1998-2001), where he directed the publication of “Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity." In spring 2024 he was a visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Rabbi Dr. Abraham Skorka is a senior research fellow for Jewish studies and Jewish-Christian relations at Georgetown University, where he is also a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and has taught courses for Center for Jewish Civilization. He previously was University Professor in the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, rector of the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano, and rabbi of the Masorti Olami Community (Worldwide Conservative Movement) Benei Tikva in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He co-authored a book on interfaith dialogue with Pope Francis titled On Heaven and Earth that was published in Spanish in 2010 and in English in 2013.