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George Gallup, Jr.

George Gallup, Jr., is Chairman of The George H. Gallup International Institute, Co-Chairman of The Gallup Organization, and Executive Director of the Princeton Religion Research Center. He is the author of Surveying the Religious Landscape: Trends in U.S. Beliefs and other works about American public opinion.

Kelly Allen

Rev. Kelly S. Allen is a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and holds a Master's degree in Politics and Religion from the University of Birmingham, England. She lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas, where she is the pastor of University Presbyterian Church.

Lynn Robinson

Lynn Robinson is the program manager for the Principled Entrepreneurship Initiative at the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. Prior to joining the Koch Charitable Foundation, Robinson worked at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Pew Charitable Trusts. He holds a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in political science and a master's degree from Princeton University in sociology. He received a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College in political science.

Dane Shelly

Dane Shelly is a consultant in the national security field. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, and is pursuing a law degree at Catholic University of America.

John Green

Dr. John C. Green is a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. He also serves as director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron.

Dr. Green has done extensive research on American religious communities and politics. Since 1990, The Pew Charitable Trusts have supported his widely cited surveys, conducted in presidential election years, on the political fault lines running through America's religious landscape. He is the author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections (Greenwood, 2007), and he co-authored The Values Campaign: The Christian Right in American Politics (Georgetown University Press, 2006) and The Diminishing Divide: Religion's Changing Role in American Politics (Brookings Institution Press, 2000). He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Cornell University in 1983 and his B.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado in 1975.

H. Knox Thames

H. Knox Thames is Director of Policy and Research at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Prior to that he served in the U.S. State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom. Prior to that he was Counsel to the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), serving as point person on religious freedom issues. In 2007 Thames received the International Religious Liberty Award from the International Religious Liberty Association.

Amy Rowe

Amy Rowe is former Director of Country Programs at the Institute for Global Engagement. She helped convene the Institute's "Religion and Security" conference series in Beijing, China (December 2005), Moscow and Vladikavkaz, Russia (June 2006), and Xinjiang, China (October 2006); three reciprocal Vietnam-U.S. delegations (February, June, and September 2006); the first-ever "Religion and Rule of Law in Southeast Asia" conference in Hanoi, Vietnam (September 2006); and the "Law and Religion in Transitional Societies" conference in Oslo, Norway (December 2006). A graduate of Texas A&M University, she is also a co-founder of Heart for Africa, an organization that works with U.S. churches to raise awareness and mobilize prayer for African issues.

Walter Russell Mead

Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and one of the country's leading students of American foreign policy. His book, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001), was widely hailed by reviewers, historians, and diplomats as an important study that will change the way Americans and others think about American foreign policy. His recent book, God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), is a major study of 400 years of conflict between Anglophone powers and rivals ranging from absolute monarchies like Spain and France through Communist and Fascist enemies in the 20th century to al-Qaeda today.

Mead writes regularly on international affairs for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and Esquire. He serves as a regular reviewer of books for Foreign Affairs and frequently appears on national and international radio and television programs.

Rachael Boeve

Rachael Boeve is Executive Assistant and Development Associate at The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Before working at the Becket Fund, she was the Internship Coordinator at the Institute for Global Engagement and spent a summer studying abroad in the Middle East. She graduated magna cum laude from Wheaton College (IL) with a major in English Writing and a minor in Political Science. While studying at Wheaton, she tutored high school refugee students through World Relief and served as a student leader with Discipleship Small Groups.

 

W. Cole Durham, Jr.

W. Cole Durham, Jr. is the Susa Young Gates University Professor of Law and Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University. He received the prestigious 2009 International First Freedom Award for extraordinary advocacy of religious freedom. Professor Durham advises governments worldwide on laws dealing with religious freedom and religious associations, specifically on developing the legal infrastructure needed to support this important human right. He has been actively involved in consultations on laws dealing with religious freedom in many countries, including Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Nepal, Peru, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Thailand, and Ukraine.

Timothy Samuel Shah

Dr. Timothy Samuel Shah is Adjunct Senior Fellow for Religion and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.  His current research focuses on religion and foreign policy; religion and the theory and practice of democracy; global democratization; Third World religion and politics; South Asia; and religion and domestic politics. He is also Senior Research Scholar at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, Principal Researcher in the Religion in Global Politics Project at Harvard, and Research Director on the Project on Evangelicalism and Democracy in the Global South. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.

Stephen Smith

Dr. Stephen L. S. Smith is Professor of Economics at Gordon College, where he chairs the Department of Economics and Business. He also serves as coeditor of Faith & Economics, the review published by the Association of Christian Economists. His research in international economics and economic development has been published widely in professional journals. A 1990 Visiting Scholar at the U.S. International Trade Commission, he earned his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University. His publications include Attacking Poverty in the Developing World: Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration, co-edited with Julie Anderson Schaffner and Judith M. Dean (Authentic and World Vision, 2005).

Robert Lloyd

Dr. Robert B. Lloyd is associate professor of international relations, chair of the Center for International Studies and Languages Division, and coordinator for the international studies program at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.

Prior to Pepperdine, Dr. Lloyd worked for ten years in a number of leadership positions for an international development nongovernmental organization (NGO). He was an election observer for the United States Department of State and the United Nations during Mozambique's first multiparty elections to end the country's civil war. He was also an election observer in Nigeria during that country's first back-to-back democratic elections in 2003 and in Liberia in 2005 following its civil war that led to the collapse of the state. He has published articles in academic journals on international conflict resolution, been a consultant with Freedom House on issues of democratization, received grants for research on international issues from the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, and the Institute of International Education (oversees the Fulbright program), and regularly contributes op-eds on international topics to the Ventura County Star.

He received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, an M.R.P., in regional and economic development planning from Cornell University and a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Arizona.

Rachel McCleary

Dr. Rachel M. McCleary is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Development and a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Her research focuses on the political economy of religion, through which she conducts cross-country studies on religion, religious beliefs, and aspects of economic development. At present, she is researching trends in the field of U.S. international relief and development from 1939 to 2005. In addition, she is conducting a multi-year project on the relationship between political tolerance and religious tolerance. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, a Master of Theological Studies from Emory University, and a B.A. from Indiana University.

Pauline Côté

Dr. Pauline Côté is a professor of political science and the director of the Political Science Department at Laval University. She is the author of three books on the relationship between politics and religion as well as of a number of book-chapters, scientific and popular articles, and other academic reports.

She was a member of a number of professional and academic organizations such as the Council for the Sociology of Religion, the Sociology Institute of the Université libre de Bruxelles, and the Conseil de la Société québécoise pour l'étude de la religion. Dr. Côté has used her experience to serve Canada as a member of the advisory committee for the secretariat for religious affairs for the Government of Quebec (2003) and was appointed by the federal minister of Foreign affairs to an expert panel on freedom of thought and religion (2004). She has a Ph.D. in political science from Laval University.

Neamat Nojumi

Neamat Nojumi is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He is the author of The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region (Palgrave, 2002) as well as a number of research papers on the contemporary politics of Central and Southwest Asia. Nojumi has worked as a consultant on Afghanistan with Tufts University and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) several times. He served both in military and political fronts in the Afghan resistance known as Mujahideen in 1980s and he became a peace activist in 1990s.

Nojumi received a B.A. in Politics and Government from University of Hartford and a M.A.L.D. (Master of Art in Law and Diplomacy) with a focus on International Security and International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Nojumi has also worked as a fellow at the Harvard Law School.

Nancy Roman

Nancy E. Roman is Director of Public Policy Communications and Private Partnerships of the UN World Food Programme. She supervises a global staff covering operations in 80 countries. In her capacity of Director of Public Policy Strategy, she helps craft the organization positioning on public policy issues ranging from climate change to biofuel. In addition, she supervises the Private Donor Relations Division and chairs the Investment Policy Committee.

Prior to joining the World Food Programme, her 18-year career in Washington, DC spanned Capitol Hill, journalism, private business and the non-profit sectors. She served as Vice President and Director of the Washington Program of the Council on Foreign Relations and established the Council's congressional program in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the Council, she was president of the G7 Group, a strategic consulting firm that advises Wall Street on how political, legislative, central banking, and regulatory developments will affect institutional investments. Roman holds an M.A. in International Economics and American Foreign Policy from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in Journalism and French from Baylor University.

Manfred Brauch

Dr. Manfred T. Brauch is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Theology at the Palmer Theological Seminary, Eastern University (Wynnewood, PA). He served as President of the seminary from 1989 to 1997, when he returned to full-time teaching as Professor of Biblical Theology until 2004.

A native of Germany, Dr. Brauch came to the United States in 1953 and became a U.S. citizen in 1959. After completion of graduate study, he taught New Testament Interpretation at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary (Chicago) from 1971 to 1978. He joined the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary as Academic Dean and Professor of New Testament Interpretation in 1978. From 1981 to 1983 he also served as Acting President of Eastern Baptist Seminary (now Palmer) and its sister school Eastern College. He holds a Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. from McMaster University in Ontario.

Lyman Kellstedt

Dr. Lyman A. Kellstedt is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College. His publications include Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics (M.E. Sharpe, 1993), Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches from the Front (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), and The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy (University of Kansas Press, 1997).

Kevin den Dulk

Dr. Kevin R. den Dulk is an assistant professor of political science and Honors Faculty Fellow at Grand Valley State University. A scholar of the role of religion in public life, he co-authored Religion and Politics in America (Westview, 2004) and Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America (Georgetown University Press, 2008). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.