Rebecca Todd Peters is an associate professor of religious studies at Elon University in North Carolina. She is involved in a globalization project of the World Council of Churches and teaches a course on wealth and poverty.

Emmanuel Katongole is associate professor of theology and world Christianity at Duke (University) Divinity School. He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in his native country of Uganda. He is co-director of the Center for Reconciliation at the divinity school, and is author of the book The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa.

Suzanne Toton is an associate professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova (Pa.) University. One of her specialties is development ethics.

Timothy Patrick Moran is a sociologist at Stony Brook (N.Y.) University with expertise in globalization and inequality.

William F. Fisher is director of the Program for International Development, Community and Environment at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. He is an expert in global civil society and transnational advocacy.

Simon Blackburn is a Distinguished Research Professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is a humanist philosopher and the vice president of the British Humanist Association.

Helen Beebee is a humanist philosopher and the Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester.

The Center for Interfaith Action targets global poverty and describes its work as “operating at the intersection of faith and development.” Its initiatives include the Women, Faith and Development Alliance. CIFA also has its own new gender program. Contact Margaux Bergen, director of communications and development.

Katherine Marshall is executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue and senior fellow and visiting professor at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, leading the Program on Religion and Global Development. She is an expert on international development issues and advises the World Bank, where she once worked.