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Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies in American University's School of International Service and a trustee for the World Faiths Development Dialogue. Ahmed belonged to Pakistan's senior civil service and was Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Ahmed is a member of the Washington Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council and is a member of the International Advisory Board for The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at The Queen’s University of Belfast. Ahmed consistently writes for a number of popular news publications around the globe, including a weekly column in the Daily Times, a leading English-language Pakistani newspaper.

Mustafa Santiago Ali is a senior advisor to US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy on environmental justice and a founding member of the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice. He is also the designated federal official for the Workgroup on Nationally Consistent EJ Screening Approaches of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, a federal advisory committee to the EPA. Ali has been a national speaker on social justice and environmental justice issues for over 15 years. During that time he has worked with communities both domestically and internationally to secure environmental, health, and economic justice. Ali served as a Brookings Institute Congressional Fellow in the office of Congressman John Conyers in FY 2007-2008. His portfolio as a legislative assistant focused on foreign policy in Africa and South America, homeland security, health care, appropriations, and environmental justice. Ali is a former instructor at West Virginia University and Stanford University in Washington. 

Galen Carey is the vice president of government relations for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). His responsibilities include representing the NAE to government bodies, including Congress and the White House. Prior to his work as vice president, Carey was a longtime employee of World Relief, the relief and development arm of the NAE. Through this position, he served abroad in Croatia, Mozambique, Kenya, Indonesia, and Burundi. He earned a B.A. from Trinity International University, M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Theological Seminary.

Rev. Andrew (Drew) Christiansen, S.J., was Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs from 2013 until his death in April 2022. His areas of research included nuclear disarmament, nonviolence and just peacemaking, Catholic social teaching, and ecumenical public advocacy. He was a frequent consultant to the Holy See and a member of the steering committee of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. He also served on the Atlantic Council's Middle East Task Force and on the Holy See delegation that participated in the negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons during summer 2017.

Jennifer Hadden is an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Hadden's research interests include international relations, environmental politics, and social movements. Her book Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Global Climate Change (2015) explores the evolution and impact of the international climate change movement. The research for this book was supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, as well as grants from the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, and the European Union Studies Association. She is a regular participant in the UN climate process and holds an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations for the 2015-2016 academic year. Hadden holds a B.A. from Smith College and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Dr. Willis Jenkins is Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA). He co-directs three transdisciplinary projects at UVA, each involving arts, sciences, and humanities in the study of environmental change: the Coastal Futures Conservatory, Sanctuary Lab, and the Water Justice team of the Water Futures Initiative. Jenkins is the author of two award-winning books on the intersections of religious and environmental thought, along with many essays on environmental ethics.

Dr. Maryann Cusimano Love is a tenured professor of international relations at the Catholic University of America and an expert on international security and peacebuilding. She is a consultant to the Holy See Mission at the United Nations and a board member of the Arms Control Association and the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. She earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and her research focuses on just peace and just war, nuclear disarmament, religious actors and transnational networks, globalization, normative change. Recent publications include her book Global Issues Beyond Sovereignty (2020).

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.