Kirsten Laursen Muth is chief executive officer of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities. Kirsten’s previous positions include: special advisor for leadership development and senior director for international programs at Episcopal Relief & Development and deputy director of programs at Church World Service. She has collaborated with multiple UN agencies and has worked with government, non-profit, education, and faith organizations in more than 40 countries. In recent years, she has focused on GBV prevention and response of faith actors, with a special interest in women's movements.

Masiiwa is a Zimbabwean citizen. He holds a PhD in Intercultural Applied Biblical Studies from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He completed his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe. Masiiwa has lectured at the University of Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow. Masiiwa has published three monographs and in excess of 40 journal articles and book chapters.

Hira Aftab is the Co-Founder of Our World Too, an organisation dedicated to re-humanising the narrative surrounding refugees. She is also a Communications Expert in the humanitarian/international development sector and has worked in Saudi Arabia, the UK and Pakistan. She holds two Masters degrees, an MA in International Relations from the University of Nottingham and a MSc in Humanitarianism, Conflict and Development from the University of Bath. 

Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford. He is also the Academic Director of the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights and works with the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford. Hugo was Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 2015-2020 and Chief Scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva from 2003-2007. He was Reader in International Humanitarianism at Oxford Brookes University from 1994-2003 and has worked as a frontline humanitarian for Save the Children and the United Nations, and as a board member of Oxfam GB and the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD). Hugo is the author of 30 refereed journal papers and five books, including: Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster (Hurst/OUP 2015) and Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War (Hurst/OUP, 2007). Hugo’s new book is Solferino 21: Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty First Century, to be published in January 2022.

As a Chevening scholar, Ana Maria completed her M.A in Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies at King's College, London. Her thesis, entitled “Know Thy Neighbour: Interfaith Dialogue, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in the Lebanese Context” explored the role of practical interfaith dialogue in the Lebanese peacebuilding and reconciliation process, and received academic praise.  Valedictorian of the Faculty of Humanities, she also graduated with a B.A., Summa Cum Laude, in Communication Arts, Journalism and Electronic Media and a B.A. in Translation and Modern Languages. She is currently the Head of Research and Courses’ Unit at Adyan Foundation. Her scope of work focuses on the organization’s projects on pluralism, dialogue, inclusion, education, and faith-based activism in the MENA region and beyond. Daou has also co-authored book chapters, journal articles and reports on topics of inter-religious dialogue, peace-building, and sustainable development. Last but not least, she participated as a trainer and speaker in several workshops and conferences in Lebanon and abroad.