Berkley Center

W. Cole Durham, Jr. is emeritus professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University, where he held the Susa Young Gates University Professorship. He is also founding director of the Clark Law School’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS) and president of the G20 Interfaith Association. He has been heavily involved in comparative law scholarship, with a special emphasis on comparative constitutional law, and is known for his contributions to protecting religious freedoms. He is co-editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion and the Encyclopedia of Law and Religion (2016) and co-author of Law and Religion: National, International and Comparative Perspectives (second ed. 2019) and Religious Organizations and the Law (2024).

Matius Ho is executive director of Leimena Institute, a non-profit organization focused on helping Christians effectively engage in social, political, and economic issues in Jakarta, Indonesia. He also served as a leader during the development of the Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy program, which has trained thousands of teachers in Indonesia on competencies to strengthen peaceful multi-faith and multicultural societies.

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.

Chris Seiple is principal advisor to the Templeton Religion Trust’s Covenantal Pluralism Initiative. Previously, he served as Senior Fellow for Comparative Religion at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington as well as President Emeritus of the Institute for Global Engagement. Dr. Seiple holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Tufts University.