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Federico Agusti is the representative in Peru of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He previously served at the National Directorate of Migration in Argentina.

Diego Beltrand is the director general's special envoy for the regional response to the Venezuela situation at the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Between 2012 and 2019, he was IOM’s regional director for South America.

Carmen Carcelén is the coordinator of Casa de Acogida Juncal, a shelter for Venezuelans based out of her home in El Juncal, Ecuador. Carcelén is also a fruit and vegetable vendor in in Ipiales, a Colombian city close to the border of Ecuador.

Rev. Manuel Castillo is the pastor of the First Evangelical Baptist Church of Lima (PIEBL) and a member of the Interreligious Committee for Refugees and Migrants in Peru (CIREMI), an initiative from the Interreligious Council of Peru - Religions for Peace.

Martin Coria is regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Church World Service (CWS). Since 2001 he has led humanitarian assistance programs, and solidarity actions for development and defense of migrants' dignity in Haiti, the South American Gran Chaco, Mexico, and Central America.

Azza Karam is a member of the United Nations’ Secretary General High Level Advisory Board on Multilateralism and president and CEO of Lead Integrity. She is secretary general emerita of Religions for Peace International and previously was a professor of religion and development at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. She served for nearly two decades in the United Nations (in UNDP and UNFPA), where she coordinated the Arab Human Development Reports, co-founded and chaired the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Religion (with over 20 UN system bodies), and founded and convened its Multi-Faith Advisory Council. Karam created and facilitated the peer-to-peer “Strategic Learning Exchanges” on religion, development, and diplomacy. Karam is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Sabrina Lustgarten is the executive vice president of HIAS, a Jewish humanitarian organization that provides services to refugees and asylum seekers of all faiths. Lustgarten previously served as the head of HIAS Ecuador, where she opened the HIAS Ecuador office to respond to the Colombian refugee crisis.

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.