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Os Guinness is an author and social critic. He has written or edited more than thirty books, including “The Global Public Square,” “Last Call for Liberty,” and “Carpe Diem Redeemed,” and he has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum and the EastWest Institute in New York. He was the lead drafter of the Williamsburg Charter in 1988, a celebration of the bicentennial of the US Constitution, and later of “The Global Charter of Conscience,” which was published at the European Union Parliament in 2012.
Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. From 2023 to 2024, he was a member of the Post’s Editorial Board. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Hamid is the author of several books, including most recently The Problem of Democracy. His previous book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs. His forthcoming book The Case for American Power will be published in 2025 by Simon & Schuster. In 2019, Hamid was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine. He is also the co-founder of Wisdom of Crowds, a podcast, newsletter, and debate platform. Hamid received his B.S. and M.A. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and his Ph.D. in political science from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
Philippa Stroud is CEO of the Legatum Institute. Previously, she was Chief Executive of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think tank that she cofounded in 2004. Prior to the CSJ, she was Special Adviser the Rt. Hon. Iain Duncan Smith MP (then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) from 2010–15, and also to the Prime Minister from 2012. In these roles she was responsible for the development of a national social justice agenda. Her early career included service in Hong Kong and Macau, working with heroin addicts and ex-members of triad gangs undergoing rehabilitation, and on her return to the UK she directed projects serving homeless men and women. Following the 2015 UK General Election, she was ennobled and became Baroness Stroud of Fulham.
Micah Goodman is the author of five Israeli bestsellers and the director of Beit Midrash Yisraeli – Ein Prat, Israel’s leading pluralistic Zionist Beit Midrash for young adults. In 2014, he received the Marc and Henia Liebhaber Prize for Religious Tolerance for his work and writings. Goodman lectures across North America and Europe, as well as at Israel’s leading universities, think tanks, and cultural venues. Goodman has a doctorate in Jewish Thought from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and teaches at his alma mater. He is a member of the Global Forum of the National Library of Israel and a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post and a prize-winning historian with a particular expertise in the history of communist and post communist Europe. She is also a professor of practice at the London School of Economics, where she runs ARENA, a research project on disinformation and 21st-century propaganda, and a Senior Fellow of International Affairs and Agora Fellow in Residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She is the author of several books, including “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine,” “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe,” and “Gulag: A History,” which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Applebaum is a former member of The Washington Post’s editorial board, a former deputy editor of the Spectator magazine, and a former Warsaw correspondent of The Economist.
Eric Kaufmann is Professor and Assistant Dean of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and has been researching immigration, religion, and national identity for more than twenty years. He has authored or edited nine books, most recently “Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Majorities.” An editor of the journal Nations & Nationalism, he has written for The New York Times, Newsweek International, Foreign Affairs, New Statesman, National Review and Prospect, and his work has been covered in major newspapers and magazines in the UK and US since 2007.
Kathleen Newland is a Senior Fellow and CoFounder of the Migration Policy Institute and a Member of the Board of Trustees. Her work focuses on the governance of international migration, the relationship between migration and development, and refugee protection. Previously, she co-directed the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment, was a lecturer at the London School of Economics, and was Special Assistant to the Rector of the United Nations University. She has worked as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary General of the UN, UNICEF, The World Bank, and other organizations. She is author or editor of nine books, including most recently “All at Sea: The Policy Challenges of Rescue, Interception, and Long-Term Response to Maritime Migration.” She has also written more than fifty policy papers, articles, and book chapters.
Gioacchino Campese, C.S., is a member of the Scalabrinians, a Roman Catholic religious order, currently serving as professor of theology of human mobility at the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome. He has studied theology in Manila, Chicago, and Rome, where he earned a Ph.D. in theology of mission. He has been ministering with migrants and refugees in Mexico, USA, and Italy where he is presently general director of Casa Scalabrini 634 in Rome, a center based on the culture of welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating. He has authored and edited several books and articles on the theology of migration and pastoral care with migrants and refugees.
