Our idea of the common good is fracturing. Religion can help safeguard it
Longstanding notions of the common good are being upended. The pope's recent encyclical on AI was a reminder that religion should defend the most vulnerable.
Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue, Vice President, G20 Interfaith Forum. Professor of the Practice, Georgetown University. 50 years experience in international development, 35 years as World Bank executive. Current focus on roles of religion in development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding work. Was Counsellor to World Bank President for development values and ethics. Member of the C-100 Executive Committee. Member of the Boards of several non-governmental organizations. Trustee, Princeton University. Visiting Scholar, Harvard. Graduate Wellesley College, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.