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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.

Cardinal Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M.Afr., is considered one of the Roman Catholic Church’s leading experts on Islam. He was the papal nuncio to Egypt and delegate to the Arab League from 2006 until his retirement in 2012. Previously, he had been president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID). He was ordained bishop in 1991 and archbishop in 2002 upon his appointment as PCID president; he was created cardinal by Pope Francis in 2019.

Mary Margaret ("Meg") Funk, OSB, is the former executive director of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue. She is a Benedictine from Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana, where she was prioress from 1985 to 1993. She is the author of Renouncing Dialogue (2018).

Msgr. Indunil J. Kodithuwakku K. currently serves as secretary of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, of which he was formerly the undersecretary. A member of the clergy of the diocese of Badulla, Sri Lanka, he previously was professor at the Faculty of Missiology at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome.

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.

Bishop Dr. Munib A. Younan is bishop emeritus of the Evangelical Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, former Lutheran World Federation president (2010-2017), and a Palestinian refugee. Bishop Younan was the first to translate the Augsburg Confession into Arabic, and he is also an active, founding member of various ecumenical and interfaith dialogue initiatives in Jerusalem.