Currently, Pauline H. Baker is serving as a Senior Governance Advisor to Creative Associates International. Dr. Baker served as President of The Fund for Peace for 15 years from 1996 to 2010. She has also served as a Professorial Lecturer at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and as an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Foreign Affairs at Georgetown University. A political scientist and specialist on African affairs and fragile states, Dr. Baker lived and worked in Nigeria from 1964 to 1975. She also conducted research in South Africa and served as Staff Director of the Africa Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. She earned her doctorate with Distinction from UCLA in 1970 and did her undergraduate work at Douglass College, Rutgers University.

Ambassador John Campbell is the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1975 to 2007, Ambassador Campbell served as a U.S. Department of State Foreign Service officer. He served twice in Nigeria, as political counselor from 1988 to 1990, and as ambassador from 2004 to 2007. He also served as deputy assistant secretary for human resources, dean of the Foreign Service Institute's School of Language Studies, and director of the Office of UN Political Affairs. From 2007 to 2008, he was a visiting professor of international relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was also a Department of State mid-career fellow at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Ambassador Campbell received a BA and MA from the University of Virginia and a PhD in seventeenth century English history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jean Duff leads the Partnership for Faith & Development, supporting faith groups in their work with governments and with international public and private sector bodies, for impact on local community health and development. Duff also co-founded the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty.

Foluyinka Fakoya is a Master’s candidate at Georgetown University’s Global Human Development Program. Prior to Georgetown, Ms. Fakoya worked with The Education Partnership (TEP) Centre, where she conducted research on the Nigerian education sector and produced comprehensive reports to support ongoing development interventions. Before joining TEP Centre, Ms. Fakoya spent a year teaching French at a public school in Kaduna State as part of her National Youth Service. During that period she also volunteered with the Educating Nigerian Girls In New Enterprise (ENGINE) initiative, where she provided supplementary weekly STEM and life skills classes to 30 girls in rural Northern Nigeria. She received a BA in Economics and Sociology from Amherst College.

Nathan Hosler is the Director of the Church of the Brethren’s Office of Public Witness based in Washington, DC. In this capacity, he works on a range of policy and peacebuilding issues and convenes a working group on Nigeria. Previously he served as the Ecumenical Peace Coordinator of the National Council of Churches USA as well as worked with the Peace Programme of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) and taught peacebuilding practice and theology at Kulp Bible College in northern Adamawa State (2009-2011). The Church of the Brethren has been working in northeastern Nigeria since the 1920s. He holds a Masters degree in International Relations focusing on religion and peacebuilding and is writing a PhD in Religion and Theology focusing on peace.

Jennifer Hosler (MA, PhD candidate) is a Community Psychologist, with research and practice in peacebuilding, interfaith engagement and cooperation, religious settings, and international development. Ms. Hosler has worked in program development and evaluation, grassroots peace education and capacity building, and community organizing, in settings such as northern Nigeria, Haiti, and Washington, DC. Additionally, she is a licensed minister in the Church of the Brethren, serving as a co-pastor at Washington City Church of the Brethren, and doing research, teaching, and training at congregational, district, and national levels. Presently a full-time PhD student in Community Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Ms. Hosler has previous training in Community Psychology (MA, Community Psychology and Social Change) and also in biblical and theological studies (BA, Biblical Language).

Marinus C. Iwuchukwu is an associate professor of theology and chair of the theology department at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is also chair of the Consortium for Christian-Muslim Dialogue. Dr. Iwuchukwu specializes in interreligious dialogue, inclusive religious pluralism, and media and religion. Prior to Duquesne University, he was on the faculty of a public college in Kano, Nigeria for 12 years. He received the 2014 "Humanity Day Award" from Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. He is the author of two books and a co-editor of one, including Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Postcolonial Northern Nigeria: The Challenges of Inclusive Cultural and Religious Pluralism. He is a current Visiting Research Fellow of University of Chester, Chester, England and the 2017 Resident Research Theologian of Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Flintshire, UK.

A retired Senior Economist of the World Bank, Dr. Jammeh has been working in the Agricultural and Rural sector of Nigeria since 1998. As the Task Team Leader, he led the design of the flagship community-driven projects, including the Nigeria Fadama II Project ($160 million total project costs) from 2004-2008, which is an international best practice; as a consultant on the Fadama III Project (total project cost: $450 million, of which IDA Credit: $250 million); and more recently (April/May 2013) Fadama III Plus Additional Financing (IDA credit of $200 million), as WB support for the implementation of the Government’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda. Dr. Jammeh has travelled extensively in Nigeria, having visited all 36 States plus FCT of the Federation and more than half of the 774 local government administrations (LGAs) to engage Federal, State and Local government officials, religious authorities and traditional leaders, rural community organizations, NGOs and public and private sector service providers in extensive stakeholder consultations and to conduct other project-related work.