Berkley Center

Dina Buchbinder Auron is a Mexican social entrepreneur who has introduced an innovative, action-oriented international education model called Education for Sharing (E4S) to systems that have long struggled with passivity and rigidity. Auron is a Schusterman Fellow, Edmundo Hillary Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, and an emerita member of the board of directors of the International Youth Foundation. She is a Vital Voices Lead Fellow, a WEF Global Shaper, and a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in Urban Planning at MIT.

Benjamin Laniado is the secretary general of CADENA, a global Jewish humanitarian relief agency based in Mexico City. CADENA works to reduce the impact of natural disasters in vulnerable communities.

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.

Jorge Vivanco is today the president of Zukara, a company developing natural and healthy food. He is involved in a number of other entrepreneurial and charitable enterprises, including Ahimsa Fund where he served as Board President for three years. Over his long career he held different positions in private enterprise and also served the Mexican government, notably as the logistics and development director at the Mexican Institute of Social Security. He served as chairman of the board of World Vision Mexico from 2010 to 2016, and of VisionFund Mexico. His company leadership positions include managing director of bioMerieux Mexico. Previously he created and managed Diagnomed, a distribution diagnostics company. He was trained as an engineer at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).