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Sir Samuel Zan Akologo, KSG, is the consultant campaign manager for Africa Inclusive Economic Recovery at Caritas Africa and former head of Caritas Ghana. He is co-founder and the national coordinator of the FAITH in Ghana Alliance. He was written and commented extensively on migration and development, and his research interests lay in social accountability and citizens' agency in governance.

David Beckmann is president emeritus of Bread for the World, having led the organization from 1991 to 2020 as it worked to strengthen U.S. political commitment to overcoming hunger and poverty. A Lutheran clergyman and an economist, Beckmann previously worked with the World Bank; he earned degrees from Yale, Christ Seminary, and the London School of Economics. 

Saulo Ceolin is the general coordinator of food and nutritional security at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Andrea Kaufmann is director of external engagement for faith and development at World Vision International, where she previously served as director of faith partnerships for development. Prior to joining World Vision International, Kaufmann worked at World Relief and Counterpart International.

Asma Lateef is director of Bread for the World Institute. Lateef was previously director of policy and programs at Citizens for Global Solutions. She currently serves on the steering committee of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement’s Civil Society Network and is a member of the executive committee of the 1,000 Days Advocacy Working Group.

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.