Berkley Center

Chris Seiple is the president emeritus of the Institute for Global Engagement, where he founded The Review of Faith & International Affairs. He is a senior fellow at the Love Your Neighbor Community and the Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies, as well as a member of the Strategic Religious Engagement Hub Advisory Board, an initiative hosted by the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He has practiced relational diplomacy throughout Eurasia, Africa, and the Middle East. He played a significant role in the removal of Vietnam from the U.S. State Department’s religious freedom violations list (2007) and later Uzbekistan (2019). He has served as senior advisor to the U.S. secretary of state, chairing the religion and foreign affairs working group (2011-2013), and as senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development regarding the U.S. government’s first-ever summit on strategic religious engagement (2020). He is co-editor of The Routledge Handbooks on Religion & Security (2013) and Religious Literacy, Pluralism & Global Engagement (2021) and a co-creator of the Dialogue of Declarations. He previously advised the Templeton Religion Trust in the creation of the Covenantal Pluralism Initiative. Seiple holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.