Berkley Center

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.

Dr. Gloria Duffy is the president and CEO of The Commonwealth Club of California, the country's largest public affairs forum. Dr. Duffy formerly served as President Clinton’s deputy assistant secretary of defense, during which time she was credited with negotiating disarmament agreements with Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

Ambassador James E. Goodby is an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. During his time in the United States Foreign Service Ambassador Goodby was appointed ambassador to Finland and worked on nuclear issues, including the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency and cooperative threat reduction. He also taught at Georgetown, Syracuse, and Carnegie Mellon Universities.

Dr. David Holloway is a professor of international history and political science at Stanford University as well as a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His research centers around nuclear weapons history, Soviet science and technology programs, and the relationship between international history and international relations theory. 

Dr. William Perry is professor emeritus at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, as well as director of Stanford’s Preventative Defense Project. He is the founder of the Perry Project, an organization dedicated to nuclear disarmament. He formerly served as the secretary of defense under President Clinton.

Lucy Shapiro is the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University. Dr. Shapiro is also the director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University. She is a frequent public speaker about climate change and the global threat of pandemics. In 2013, President Obama awarded her the National Medal of Science.

Philip Taubman is a consulting professor at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He formerly covered defense and security for the New York Times for nearly 30 years. Taubman is the author of several books, including The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and their Quest to Ban the Bomb (2012). He is currently working on the first comprehensive biography of former Secretary of State George Shultz.