Berkley Center

Kirsten Evans is the director of the Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and senior advisor to USAID Administrator Mark Green on global engagement of the faith-based community.

Cynthia Hotton is an economist, graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, a career diplomat, and a specialist in foreign trade and bilateral economic relations.

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.

John T. Monahan is the senior advisor for global health to President John J. DeGioia; senior fellow, McCourt School of Public Policy; and senior scholar, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. 

David Moore is the acting deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. He previously was the Wayne M. and Connie C. Hancock Professor of Law and associate dean for research and academic affairs at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. His research focused on U.S. foreign relations law, international law, international human rights, and international development.