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Sir Timothy Lankester is chairman of trustees at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London University. He is also a member of the joint advisory board of the Georgetown University in Qatar, and an advisor on the Asia-Pacific region for the consulting firm, Oxford Analytica. He previously served as the president of Corpus Christi College at Oxford University and director of the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London. Prior to 1996 he worked at the World Bank and in the British Civil Service. He was private secretary to Prime Ministers Callaghan and Thatcher, and served as executive director on the boards of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He was permanent secretary of Britain’s international aid ministry, and has lectured and published on aid and development issues.

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.

Dr. John F. May, a specialist in population policies and programs, is an adjunct professor of demography at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. For 15 years, he was a lead demographer at the World Bank. Prior to coming to the United States in 1987, he worked on many population projects around the world for UNFPA, UNICEF, USAID, and IUSSP. He was posted in Haiti, West Indies; and New Caledonia, South Pacific, for the United Nations. He also worked for the Futures Group International, a U.S. consulting firm offering services in population and HIV/AIDS modeling, policy, and program design. He has a doctorate in demography from the University of Paris-V (Sorbonne). His book World Population Policies: Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact (Springer, 2012) has received the 2012 Global Media Award of the Population Institute for best book on population. In 2013, he was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.

Dr. Rachel Sullivan Robinson is an associate professor at the American University School of International Service. She is a sociologist and demographer whose research focuses on global health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa, including family planning, HIV/AIDS, and sexuality education. She is the author of Intimate Interventions: Preventing Pregnancy and Preventing HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017).

Lauren Van Enk is a program officer with the Institute for Reproductive Health and instructor in Georgetown's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She manages several family planning and reproductive health programs in Africa as part of her focus on building the capacity of faith-based organizations and religious leaders in family planning.