Katherine Marshall Professor, Georgetown University
A senior fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and Visiting Professor in the School of Foreign Service, she is the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue. A non-governmental organization born in the World Bank, its mission is to bridge the gulfs that separate the worlds of development and religion. She spent a large part of her career at the World Bank, in many leadership assignments focused on Africa, Latin America, and East Asia. From 2000 – 2006, she was counselor to the Bank’s president on ethics, values, and faith in development. She holds various board positions currently including the World Bank Community Connections Fund, AVINA Americas, and the Opus Prize Foundation, and served recently as a Trustee of Princeton University and Trustee of the Washington National Cathedral Foundation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a visiting professor at the University of Cambodia. A graduate of Wellesley College (’67) and Princeton (MPA), she is the author of several books and many articles, most recently Global Institutions of Religion: Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers, published by Routledge in 2013. A forthcoming book, coedited with Susan Hayward, on women, religion, and peace, is being published by the US Institute of Peace and a revised edition of The World Bank: From Reconstruction to Development to Equity (Routledge) is in preparation.