Berkley Center

Husnul Amin is an assistant professor in politics and international relations and director of the Iqbal International Institute for Research & Dialogue at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan. He focuses on Islamic institutions and development discourse in Pakistan, with an emphasis on poverty alleviation.

Brenda Bartelink is a postdoctoral senior researcher at the Faculty of Religious Studies and a fellow at the Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain at the University of Groningen. Her expertise is in religion, secularity, international development, health, gender, sexuality, civil society, NGOs, knowledge valorization, the Netherlands, and Eastern and Southern Africa, particularly Uganda.

Welmoet Boender is a lecturer at Leiden University and member of its Leiden Islam Academy. Trained in anthropology and Islamic studies, she has specialized in contemporary Islam with a special focus on Muslims in Europe. She earned her Ph.D. in religious sciences from Leiden University in 2007.

Omer Caha is a professor at Yildiz Technical University in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. He is interested in NGOs, development, political theory, and political behavior. Caha received his B.A. from Middle East Technical University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Bilkent University.

Jacques Dinan was the executive secretary of Caritas Africa from 2007 to 2015 and was director of Caritas Mauritius. He is a senior public relations consultant in Mauritius. He also served as the executive secretary of Transparency Mauritius from 1998 to 2002 and as a founder of the Institute for Corporate Governance in Mauritius.

Peter Grant was a co-founding director of Restored, a global Christian alliance to end violence against women, from its 2010 launch until May 2018. He previously was the international director of Tearfund from 2005 to 2010, where he oversaw the organization's work with partners worldwide and its disaster management programs.

Audu Grema is senior manager for agriculture for the Gates Foundation. Based in Nigeria, he previously worked in the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, originally as agricultural advisor and transitioning to aid management. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees from universities in Nigeria, as well as a Ph.D. from Cranfield University.

Willem Jansen is a Protestant minister presently working as a program coordinator for Initiatives of Change in The Hague, where his work focuses on intercultural dialogue and human rights. As a former student of Islam he has lived and worked in the Middle East and Pakistan.