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 & PeaceÂ
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 ResolutionÂ
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 ServiceÂ
Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue Â
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 BayÂ
Canon Sarah Snyder
Founder, Rose Castle Foundation
Amb. Nancy E. Soderberg
Former White House Deputy National Security Advisor and UN AmbassadorÂ
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