Since 1997 he has been a consultant theologian of the National Service for the Cultural Project of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI). As of 2022 he was he a member of the International Council for Catechesis (COINCAT) and of the Commission for Culture and Social Communication of the CEI. Within the Sicilian Episcopal Conference he is a delegate for migrants. As well to mention, he has written several theological publications. Pope Francis appointed Staglianò appointed him president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology on 6 August 2022, and also on September 23, 2024 as one of the 28 new consultors of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Prof. Šimo Maršić is the Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Sarajevo, teaching also in the Interreligious Master Programme. He has a PhD in Youth Work from the Redemptor Hominis Pastoral Institute at the Lateran University in Rome. He has since published four books, several articles, and presented extensively on subjects related to youth work both nationally and internationally. His research publications focus on youth development.

Jochen Sautermeister studied Catholic theology (Bachelor, Master), psychology (Bachelor) and philosophy (Master) in Tübingen/Germany, and Jerusalem/Israel from 1995 to 2004. Prof. Sautermeister got his Doctorate (Dr, rer. soc.) in Tübingen in 2006 and Dr. theol. in Munich 2013.

From 2004 to 2014, Prof. Sautermeister was a research assistant at the Chair of Moral Theology at the LMU Munich; from 2014 to 2017 he was the holder of the endowed professorship for moral theology with special emphasis on moral psychology.

Lawyer by profession, Mme. Reicherts engaged most of her professional career in the European Institutions, from which she retired in 2018. Her latest role was that of Director General of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport in Luxembourg, and notably the Erasmus programme. Her passionate work includes human relationships and connections between people. Governance is one of her favorite subjects for which she has followed numerous training courses. Now currently, all of her esteemed expertise and exceptional skills are expressed through her activities with the service of public or private entities by exercising the functions of independent administrator.

Plamen Petkov is a PhD candidate at the Bulgarian Academy of Science. His primary interests are in the topic of trust, specifically the development and maintenance of interpersonal trust in both personal and professional interactions. In his dissertation, he attempts to interrelate culture, values, and personality in order to identify the drivers of interpersonal trust. His experience as a psychotherapist also influences his interest in trust. His other interests include studying narcissism, human-machine interaction, leadership, and propaganda. He studied organizational and social psychology at New Bulgarian University and earned a master's degree.

Matthew Pawlak is the Academic Network Leader of Trust and Society – The Global Network on Trust. He is responsible for working with Prof. Ehret and the rest of the T&S coordination team to define and implement T&S’ vision, strategy, and goals as well as building relationships and collaborations with trust researchers, practitioners, and networks. He holds a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Cambridge and is the author of the award-winning book Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Associate professor at the School of Church Communications at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome); He teaches ‘Digital communications’, ‘Communication industry and markets’ and ‘Storytelling of values’. His areas of research are: Trust and institutional communication; communication of faith and digital narratives. Author of the books ‘Comunicare la fede oggi’ and ‘Inspiring Trust’. He is member of the Executive Committee Journal «Church, Communication & Culture» and of the Interdisciplinary Forum on Anthropology (IFA).

Sheila M. McMahon, Ph.D., M.Div., MSW, LCSW (she/her) is currently the Visiting Scholar at the Center for Restorative Justice, University of San Diego. She co-chairs the Restorative Justice Network of Catholic Campuses (RJNCC), which assists in implementation of restorative practices on member campuses. Her research and practice interests center on campus-based and community-level interventions, such as restorative justice (RJ) and transformative justice (TJ), to prevent and address sexualized violence, build a sense of community, and strengthen individual and collective well-being. She is engaged in collaborative research nationally which focuses on the role of trauma-informed, system-aware restorative justice (RJ) responses to sexual harm.

Dr. Astrid Lobo Gajiwala is a feminist theologian, writer, activist and pioneer in the field of tissue banking in India. She has a doctorate in Medicine and specializations in Tissue Banking and Biomedical Ethics. As a woman in the Catholic Church she played a key role in the genesis of the Catholic bishops (CBCI) Commission for Women and helped draft the CBCI Gender Policy of India. Currently, she is on the executive committee of International Catholic Reform Network (ICRN) and Secretary of Ecclesia of Women in Asia (EWA), a collective of Asian women theologians.

Prof. Bies is Professor of Management and the Founder and Director of the Executive Master’s in Leadership Program at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. His current research focuses on leadership, the delivery of bad news, building trust and managing distrust, organizational justice, and revenge and forgiveness in the workplace, and the redemption of leaders and institutions.

Axel Liégeois is full professor of care ethics and practical theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Catholic University Leuven), Belgium. He holds the Chair of the Brothers of Charity for Theology, Mental Health and Disability. He is also posted as ethical advisor to the Brothers of Charity in Gent, Belgium. There, he coordinates ethics committees, gives ethical advice and ethical education.

Prof. Dr. Martin Leiner is chair of Systematic Theology and Ethics at the Faculty of (Protestant) Theology at Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. Prof. Leiner is a pioneer ("Father") of transdisciplinary Reconciliation Studies. In 2013 he founded the Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (www.jcrs.uni-jena.de), in 2016 the first doctoral program on Reconciliation Studies, in 2018 the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (www.aarmena.uni-jena.de), and in 2020 he became the first president of the International Association for Reconciliation Studies (www.iars-world.de).

James F. Keenan, S.J., is the Canisius Chair, Director of the Jesuit Institute and Vice Provost of Global Engagement at Boston College. A Jesuit priest since 1982, he received a licentiate and doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has edited or written over 25 books and published over 400 essays, articles, and reviews worldwide. In 2003 he founded Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church (CTEWC) an international network ethicists and subsequently hosted three international and six regional conferences.

Raimondo Grassadonia is a PhD Candidate in Business & Management at the University of Turin. His research focuses on sustainability accounting, accountability, and future studies, with a particular emphasis on environmental impression management and critical thinking in sustainability accounting. He has published the article “Mouvement vers l’intérieur : Münch, Bourdieu et Rosa pour un dialogue entre l’artologie et la sociologie” in the Revue Internationale d’Art et d’Artologie.

Prof. Dr. Em. Karijn Demasure is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Canon Law and the Founding Director of the Centre for Safeguarding Minors and Vulnerable Persons at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. She has published extensively in peer review journals on the clergy abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, including a recent book on the experiences of women in this context (La vérité nous rendra libres. Paroles des femmes dans la crise des abus, 2022), making her an authority in the field. Her research interests extend to sexual violence in other contexts as well such as incest and diverse publications and presentations pertaining to sexual violence against minors and vulnerable adults.

Stefano Chiarolla R.D. is doctoral student with a “cotutelle de thèse” projekt between the Pontifical Gregorian University (Faculty of Philosophy) and the University of Vienna (Faculty of Theology). He studied Catholic Theology (Bachelor) at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy and Philosophy (Bachelor, Master) at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He is a member of the Association “Trialogo – Dizionario Dinamico di Ontologia Trinitaria” and of the Pontifical Academy of Theology.

Dr. Laura Villanueva is a transdisciplinary practitioner-scholar in Ecosystem-Based Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation, and Regenerative Reconciliation. She pioneers the “Ecosystem Turn,” an emerging paradigm shift that reconceptualizes peacebuilding and reconciliation as adaptive, regenerative, and systemic. Her innovative approach is shaped by 18 years of experience with Satoyama (里山), the traditional Japanese rural landscape concept that emphasizes a sustainable balance between human activities and semi-natural ecosystems through centuries of integrated management practices. Through this perspective, she interprets the harmonious coexistence exemplified in these traditional landscapes, providing valuable principles for addressing societal tensions and restoring social balance. This framework also offers a responsive model for developing sustainable and regenerative human lifestyles in modern contexts.