Katherine Marshall has worked for five decades on international development, focusing on the world’s poorest countries. As a World Bank operational manager for 35 years, she worked mainly on Africa, Latin America, and East Asia, and led the World Bank’s faith and ethics initiative between 2000 and 2006.Now a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and Professor of the Practice of Development, Religion, and Conflict in the School of Foreign Service, she is the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD), whose mission is to bridge gulfs separating the worlds of development and religion. She is also Vice President of the G20 Interfaith Association. She serves on various boards, advisory councils, and prize selection committees, including the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Faith in Action, the International Fund for Arts and Culture (IFAC), AVINA Americas, the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, the Partnership for Transparency, and the Dunstan Wai Foundation. Before the dissolution of USAID, she served on the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at the U.S. Agency for International Development. She was a trustee of Princeton University from 2003-2009. She was co-moderator of the Fes Forum, part of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Katherine has written, spoken, and published extensively, on wide-ranging topics Her most recent book, co-edited with Susan Hayward, is Women, Religion, and Peacebuilding: Illuminating the Unseen (United States Institute of Peace, 2015). Her book Global Institutions of Religion: Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers (Routledge, 2013) explores relationships between religious institutions and current world affairs. Marshall holds a B.A. from Wellesley College, an MPA from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambodia.