The International Center for Religion & Diplomacy works with religious leaders, governments and institutions to integrate the constructive role of faith leaders and institutions in the transformation of violent conflict.

Judd Birdsall is the project director of the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy and a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He is also the editor of Religion & Diplomacy and a senior editor and a frequent contributor at The Review of Faith & International Affairs.

Paul Lambert is the Secretary/Treasurer and Senior Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation. He helps to develop and deliver the foundation’s in-company and campus-based executive education seminars on religious diversity & inclusion in the workplace.

Farah Siddiqui works on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Google with a focus on religious and cultural inclusion in the workplace. Prior to taking on this role, she co-founded and was the Global President of Faithforce, the Interfaith Employee Resource Group at Salesforce. She’s a bridge-builder, a diversity & inclusion advocate and speaker, and has […]

Lynne Marks is a professor of history at the University of Victoria (Canada). She is an expert in North American religions and has written on maternity, irreligion, working-class women and lived religion in English-speaking Canada and the United States.

Matthew S. Pehl is an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University and author of The Making of Working-Class Religion. According to his online bio, “class identity and religious cultures are the connective tissue that unite most of his [research] projects.”

Leon Fink is a specialist in American labor, immigration history and the Gilded Age/Progressive Era who serves as interim director of the Ph.D. concentration in the History of Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World at the University of Illinois Chicago. He also edits the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the […]

Steven Garber is the senior fellow for vocation and the common good for the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. He was formerly professor of marketplace theology and director of the masters in leadership, theology and society at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Rana Haq is a professor at Laurentian University’s School of Commerce and Administration in the faculty of management. Her research interests are in organizational behavior and human resource management, managing diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace.