Leadership

Program Advisory Councils

These programmatically focused expert groups are an integral part of the leadership in each of our core program areas, helping us with programmatic initiatives ranging from new publications and resources, to the selection of partners and projects.


Peacebuilding Program Advisory Council

Board Liaison

Judy Thompson

Members



Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Professor at American University & Director, Peacebuilding and Development Institute

Dr. James Alexander
Retired U.S. Department of State; Strategic Religious Engagement Hub Advisory Board Member at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs

Amb. José António Amorim Dias
Former Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary, Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste

Dr. R. Scott Appleby
Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs; Interim Director, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion

Dr. Thomas Asher
Columbia World Projects, Director, Research & Engagement

Dr. Andrea Bartoli
President of the Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue & Senior Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s AC4

Dr. Georgette F. Bennett
President, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, World Conference on Religion & Peace 

Virginia L. Davies, Esq.
President, Virginia Davies Consulting

Dr. Richard A. Falk
University of California, Santa Barbara Professor in Global and International
Former U.N. Special Rapporteur to the Palestinian Territories

Dr. Marc Gopin
Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution, The Jimmy and Rosalynn School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University
James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution 

Susan Hayward
Minister of Justice and Formation at Creekside UCC

Andreas Hipple
Progress Global Partners, LLC

Dr. Ephraim Isaac
Director, Institute of Semitic Studies


Dr. Azza Karam
Founding President and CEO, Lead-Integrity, Kahane UN Program at Occidental College

Dr. David Little
Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center

Katherine Marshall
Senior Fellow, Georgetown University’s Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs
Professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service 
Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue  

Antti Pentikainen
Director of the Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation and is Research Professor at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Dr. Hussein Rashid
Founder, islamicate L3C

Dr. George Rupp
Former President & CEO, International Rescue Committee

Dr. Lisa Schirch
Sr. Professor of the Practice of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Dr. Gerald Shenk
Professor Emeritus of History and Social Sciences at California State University, Monterey Bay 

Canon Sarah Snyder
Founder, Rose Castle Foundation

Amb. Nancy E. Soderberg
Former White House Deputy National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador 
Faculty Administrator, Political Science & Public Administration at University of North Florida

Najeeba Syeed-Miller
El-Hibri Endowed Chair and Executive Director of Interfaith at Augsburg

William Vendley
Secretary General Emeritus of Religions for Peace

In Memoriam

Dr. Suheil Bushrui
Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke
Joseph Montville
Dr. Abdulaziz A. Sachedina



Health Care Program Advisory Council

Board Liaison

Jeffrey H. Becker, Esq.
Partner, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.

Members


Dr. Alessandro Di Rocco
Professor of Neurology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell System Director – Neurology, Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders, Northwell Health

Dr. Judith Jacobson
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Gale Kennebrew, DMin, BCC, ACPE
Director, Department of Spiritual Care and Education
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Robert Like
Professor and Director, Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School


Dr. Aasim Padela
Professor & Vice Chair for Research and Scholarship, Department of Emergency Medicine, Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Institute of Health & Equity, The Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Christine Rodriguez
Full Time Lecturer & Director of Simulation Unit
Affiliate Faculty Yale Institute for Global Health
Yale School of Nursing ​

Matilde Roman, Esq.
SVP, Chief Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Officer
Westchester Medical Center



Workplace Program Advisory Council

Members


Nadine Augusta
Chief Impact Officer, Cushman & Wakefield

Djuana Beamon
Revive, Rise, and Reign Coaching LLC

Nancy Di Dia
Founder, Di Dia Diversity Consulting Group LLC

Kennedy Ihezie
Head, Global Diversity and Inclusion, AIG

Susan Johnson
Chief Culture Officer, The Hartford


Tanya M. Odom
Global Diversity and Inclusion Consultant/Advisor and Executive Coach

Lisa Ong
President and Founder, Wishing Out Loud LLC

Mike Ungar
Focal Point Business Coach & Executive Coach

Holly Weiss
Founder, HWH Mediation, Employment & Employee Benefits Partner, Schulte, Ross & Zabel