The Culture of Encounter Project - Georgetown University

Fadi Daou, now affiliated with the University of Geneva, is co-founder and former CEO of the Adyan foundation, a Lebanese nonprofit dedicated to managing diversity, promoting solidarity, and safeguarding human dignity. He was previously a professor of theology and the geopolitics of religion at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (Lebanon). He has authored several books and studies, and he is co-editor of Human Fraternity and Inclusive Citizenship: Interreligious Engagement in the Mediterranean (2021).

Katherine Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, leads the center’s work on religion and global development. She is also a professor of the practice of development, conflict, and religion in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, teaching diverse courses on the ethics of development work and mentoring students at many levels. She helped to create and now serves as the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, an NGO that works to enhance bridges between different sectors and institutions. In September 2022, she was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Marshall has five decades of experience on a variety of development issues in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and the Middle East, particularly those facing the world’s poorest countries. She was a World Bank officer from 1971 to 2006, and she led the World Bank’s faith and ethics initiative between 2000 and 2006. Marshall is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values and the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, both part of the Culture of Encounter Project.