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The Rt. Rev. Mitred Archpriest Jaroslaw D. Buciora is pastor of the St. Volodymyr and All Saints Parish in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Rt. Rev. Mitred Archpriest Buciora joined the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada in 1989 after studying at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Warsaw.  He has received numerous awards for his service.

José Casanova is one of the world's leading scholars in the sociology of religion and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center, where his work focuses on globalization, religions, and secularization. He is also professor emeritus at Georgetown University, where he previously taught in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. During 2017 he was the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North at the U.S. Library of Congress' John W. Kluge Center, where he worked on a book manuscript on Early Modern Globalization through a Jesuit Prism. He has published works on a broad range of subjects, including religion and globalization, migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. His best-known work, Public Religions in the Modern World (University of Chicago Press, 1994), has become a modern classic in the field and has been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Arabic, and Turkish. In 2012, Casanova was awarded the Theology Prize from the Salzburger Hochschulwochen in recognition of his life-long achievement in the field of theology. Casanova is a member of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Shaun Casey is a senior fellow with the Luce Project on Religion and Its Publics at the University of Virginia and a Pulaski Institution non-resident fellow. He served as director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and professor of the practice in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 2017 to 2021. He previously was U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs and director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs. He has also served as professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, and held positions at the Center for American Progress and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Casey has written on the ethics of the war in Iraq, as well the role of religion in American presidential politics. He is the author of The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (2009) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Theology (forthcoming, with Michael Kessler); he is writing a book on ethics and international politics tentatively titled Niebuhr’s Children. Casey holds a B.A. from Abilene Christian University, MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and M.Div. and Th.D. in religion and society from Harvard Divinity School.

George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and the co-director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He is also co-founding editor of the Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies.

Nicholas Denysenko serves as Emil and Elfriede Jochum Professor and Chair at Valparaiso University. Denysenko is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (B.S. in Business, 1994), St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (M.Div., 2000), and The Catholic University of America (Ph.D., 2008). His most recent books are The People’s Faith: The Liturgy of the Faithful in Orthodoxy (2018) and The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation (2018).

Ivan Horodyskyy serves as director of the Law School of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Since September 2014, he has served as the director of the UCU Legal Projects. He is also a co-founder and board member of the Lviv Center for International Law and Human Rights. Dr. Horodyskyy is a member of the Bar Association of Ukraine, Ukrainian Association of International Law, and International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Ostap Kryvdyk is the chair of the “Ukraine and the World” program at the Analytical Center of Ukrainian Catholic University. An international security expert and journalist, he previously held advisory posts with the secretary of national defense, security council, and speaker of parliament of Ukraine.

Oksana Kulakovska is director of the Kyiv Center of Ukrainian Catholic University. Prior to taking up this post, she was executive director of Yalta European Strategy and headed the Department of Educational Programs at the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. In 2008 – 2013, Ms. Kulakovska was director of the executive MBA program and deputy director of Lviv Business School at the Ukrainian Catholic University.