Scott Appleby is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs and interim director of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. From 2014 to 2024 he served as the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School. Previously, Appleby directed Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. The author or editor of 15 books, Appleby examines the ways religions and religiously inspired actors shape and are shaped by modern ideas, institutions, practices and conflicts. Appleby has also written extensively about American religious history, Catholicism in the United States, and strategic peacebuilding around the world.

Massimo Borghesi was, until October 2022, Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Perugia. From 1984 to 1992, he was a research fellow in philosophy at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata and subsequently, from 1992 to 1996, an associate professor of the History of Moral Philosophy at the University of Lecce. From 1981 to 2007, he taught at the Pontifical University of St Bonaventure in Rome, where he served as director of the ‘Bonaventurian Chair’ from 2000 to 2002. From 2008 to 2017, he taught at the Pontifical Urbaniana University. From 2019 to 2022, he was coordinator of the PhD programme in Ethics of Communication, Scientific Research and Technological Innovation at the University of Perugia. He is a member of the scientific committee of the journals Quaderni leif and Studium, where he coordinates the Philosophy Online section. He is a member of the scientific and editorial committee of the Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Centre for Pascal Studies (CISP) at the University of Catania. Since 2006, he has been a member of the editorial board of Edizioni Studium, where he edits the philosophy series La Dialettica.

Giancarlo Bosetti is the Vice Chair, previously Executive Chair, and one of the founders of Reset DOC and Reset, a cultural magazine he founded in 1993. He was vice-editor-in-chief of the Italian daily L’Unità. He is the editor-in-chief of the web-magazine of Resetdoc.org. He is currently contributing to the Italian daily La Repubblica and he has been teaching sociology of communication at University La Sapienza and University Roma Tre. He published La lezione di questo secolo, a book-interview with Karl Popper; Cattiva maestra televisione (ed.), writings by Karl Popper and others. Among his other books: Spin. Trucchi e Tele-imbrogli della Politica (Marsilio, 2007); Il fallimento dei laici furiosi (2009); La verità degli altri. La scoperta del pluralismo in dieci storie (Bollati Boringhieri, 2020).

Luigino Bruni is full professor in Civil Economy at Lumsa University of Rome. He is president of the Civil Economy School (SEC) and regular columnist for the newspaper Avvenire. His research interests are the history of economic thought, the relationship between economy and philosophy, with a focus on the civil, social and communitarian economy, the biblical studies and literature. Among his latest works: La fedeltà e il riscatto (Qiqajon,2023),  Capitalismo meridiano (Il Mulino, 2022) and L’arte della gratuità (Vita e Pensiero, 2021).

Marina Calloni is full professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences. She is president of the Italian Society for Critical Theory, director of the ADV – Against Domestic Violence research centre and of the UNIRE academic network for the implementation of the Istanbul Convention in universities. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Milan-Bicocca. She has served as an advisor to the ‘Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into Femicide and All Forms of Gender-Based Violence’ at the Italian Senate and collaborates with the Council of Europe – OCEAN (Open Council of Europe Academic Network). She has been a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research and the Italian Academy – Columbia University in New York. She is a member of the scientific committee of the international association Reset DOC.

Michele Cento is Assistant Professor (RTDb) of Contemporary History at the University of Urbino. He holds a PhD in “Europe and the Americas: Constitutions, Doctrines and Political Institutions” from the University of Bologna. He has held research fellowships at the Universities of Bologna, Bergamo, and Naples ‘Federico II’, as well as at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici “Benedetto Croce” in Naples. His research interests span the history of US political thought, Atlantic liberalism, and Italian colonial history. He is the author of Tra capitalismo e amministrazione. Il liberalismo atlantico di Nitti (Il Mulino, 2017) and L’ideologia atlantica. La delegittimazione politica dalla Guerra fredda culturale al neoconservatorismo (Mondadori, 2023). The English translation of his book on Nitti is forthcoming with Brill. He also edited the complete writings and speeches of Aldo Moro during his first term as Italian prime minister (1963–1968). He has presented his work at major conferences in Italy, Europe, and the United States, including the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. He serves on the editorial boards of Ricerche di Storia Politica (il Mulino) and Storia del Pensiero Politico (il Mulino), and on the scientific committee of the book series Antidoti (Viella).

Fadi Chehadé is a entrepreneur, investor, and technology executive  dedicated to building organizations that strengthen markets and societies. He is the CoFounder and Managing Partner of Ethos Capital, a private equity firm focused on long-term investments in digital infrastructure and information services. Under his leadership, Ethos Capital is recognized for its disciplined approach to value creation rooted in stewardship, innovation, and integrity. Before founding Ethos Capital, Mr. Chehadé served as President and CEO of ICANN, where he led the historic transition of Internet oversight from the U.S. government to the international multistakeholder community—ensuring the Internet remained a global, open resource. He founded multiple technology companies acquired by IBM, Oracle, and Ingram Micro. He also served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Chairman  of the World Economic Forum and was appointed by the UN Secretary-General to the HighLevel Panel on Digital Cooperation. He is Chairman of the PAX Foundation. He holds an M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University and a B.S. in Computer Science from New York University, and was named a Great Immigrant by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Monica Cohen is a Colombian filmmaker whose documentaries explore art, culture, and social transformation through intimate human stories. She founded The Boom House, a Boston-based production company specializing in cinematic documentary storytelling. Cohen’s work has screened at prestigious festivals including Sundance, CPH:DOX, and FICCI. She was named a 2023 Brother Thomas Fellow in recognition of her artistic vision and community impact. Her feature documentary DREAMS OF CHONTA (2020) won Best Documentary at multiple festivals including United Latino Film Festival, while MY NAME IS PEDRO (2017), which she co-produced, earned the Audience Award at Brooklyn Film Festival and Best Documentary at Golden Door International Film Festival. Her recent work includes Negrura (2022), More Than Mas’ (2022),and No One is An Island (2021). Cohen has taught Documentary Filmmaking and Video Production at UMass Boston and Boston University, mentoring the next generation of storytellers committed to centering culture and art in conversations about social change.

Catherine Cornille is a Belgian-American theologian. She is a professor of comparative theology and specializes in theology of religions and interreligious dialogue. She presently holds the Newton College Alumnae Chair of Western Culture in the department of theology at Boston College. She is the author of numerous publications including The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue (2008) and Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology (2019).

Fadi Daou is the Executive Director of Globethics, fostering ethical leadership through higher education and global engagement.  He is Laureate of the Elevate Prize 2020 for Global thinkers and change-makers. He is a Policy advisor and Professor in geopolitics of religions, inclusive development, and peace. He leads the engagement of Globethics in ethics of AI and emerging technologies.

Sofia de Benedictis is Events Manager at Reset DOC. Her responsibilities include the organization of Reset’s Venice Seminars and Summer School as well as all other conferences hosted by the association. She also assists in fundraising and grant seeking activities, editing, and translations. Previously she worked as Liaison Consultant at the UN Food and Agricultural Organization organizing meetings and fostering relations between the Organization and Member States. She obtained her B.A. in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and her M.A. in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris.

Wael Farouq is associate professor of Arabic Language, Literature and Culture at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. Previously, he was professor of Arabic Language at the American University in Cairo. He is also a Straus Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at New York University and vice-president of the Cairo Meeting. His research interests focus primarily on Arabic language and literature, Islamic studies. He is member of the Steering Committee and of the Scientific Committee of the Research Center of Arabic Language (CARA), Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literature, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan.

Pasquale Ferrara, who served as Political Director of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from 2021 to 2025, is the Executive Chair of Reset DOC. He served as Italy’s Special Envoy for Libya and held long-term postings in Santiago de Chile, Athens, the European Union, and Washington. From 2016 to 2020, he was Italy’s Ambassador to Algiers. Between 2011 and 2016, Ferrara served as Secretary General of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. He currently teaches Diplomacy and Negotiation at LUISS Guido Carli and Active and Preventive Policies for Peace at the Sophia University Institute in Loppiano, Italy. His most recent book is Cercando un paese innocente. La pace possibile in un mondo in frantumi (“Searching for an Innocent Country. Possible Peace in a Shattered World”, 2023).

Fulvia Giachetti is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Milan–Bicocca, where she is working on the relationship between the rise of the new global right and digital violence. She earned her Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome with a dissertation on the thought and critique of neoliberalism, part of which was reworked into the monograph Critica senza crisi. Political Philosophy and Conceptual History of Neoliberalism (1979–2025) (Mimesis, 2025). She has conducted research in France and the United States. Her work has appeared in national and international journals and volumes, and she has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences. She is currently co-editor of the journal “Pólemos. Materiali di filosofia e critica sociale” and of the eponymous book series published by Donzelli. She is a member of the editorial board of “Studi Politici” and belongs to international research groups, including the Groupe d’études sur le néolibéralisme et les alternatives and PRAGSIA (Public Reasoning and Global Society in Action). She collaborates with ResetDOC.

Jonathan Laurence is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. A specialist in comparative politics, Laurence has conducted fieldwork in more than a dozen countries, held fellowships in France, Germany, and Italy, and served as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His scholarship focuses on politics and religion in Western Europe, Turkey, and North Africa. He is the co-author of Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France (2006) and the author of The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration (2012). His latest work is Coping with Defeat: Islam, Catholicism, and the Modern State (2021). In 2022, the American Political Science Association named Coping with Defeat the “Best Book in Religion and Politics”, which was his fourth APSA award.

Mauro Magatti holds a degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Canterbury, and is a full professor at the Catholic University of Milan. A sociologist, economist and columnist for the Corriere della Sera, he is a member of the Central Charity Commission of the Cariplo Foundation, the Committee for Solidarity and Development at Banca Prossima, and the Standing Committee of the Ambrosianeum Foundation. Since 2008, he has been director of the ARC Centre (Anthropology of Religion and Cultural Change).

Eugenio Mazzarella teaches theoretical philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II and as a member of the Italian Parliament during the 16th legislature. His works include Vie d’uscita. L’identità umana come programma stazionario metafisico (Il melangolo, Genoa 2004); The Man Who Must Remain. The Demoralisation of the World  (Quodlibet, Macerata 2017); Sacredness and the Way (Guida, Naples 1998); Political Life and Values (Guida, Naples 2010) and the collection of poems Mother Soul (ArtstudioPaparo, Naples 2015).

Hans-Peter Müller is a German sociologist and professor emeritus of General Sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His work and research focus on traditional and modern social theory, social structure and social injustice as well as political sociology and cultural sociology. He is the editor-in-chief of the Berlin Journal of Sociology. He has taught at numerous universities, including La Sapienza in Rome, Berkeley, Harvard and Princeton.

Fabio Petito is professor of Religion & International Affairs and professor of International Relations in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex . He has taught at SOAS in London, the ESCP-EAP in Paris and at ‘L’Orientale’ University in Naples. Fabio holds a Laurea in Economic and Social Disciplines (DES) (magna cum laude) from Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and he undertook his MSc in International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and his PhD in the department of International Relations at the LSE, where he was also editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies. He is also the director of the Religion & Foreign Policy Initiative at the University of Sussex, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Freedom and prosperity Center and the Head of the ISPI Programme on ‘Religions and International Relations’ supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Giorgia Serughetti is an associate professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She has written essays on gender issues and political theory, with a particular focus on migration, sexuality, violence against women and feminist movements.  She is a co-founder and member of the GRIPS network – the Italian Research Group on Prostitution and Sex Work. She is a columnist for the Italian newspaper Domani.

Uriel Simonsohn is an associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Haifa and the founding director of the Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies. His work focuses on the social intersections of diverse religious communities in the medieval Islamic world, whether through human agency or institutional arrangements. He is the author of A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam (Pennsylvania UP, 2011) and of Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East (Oxford UP, 2023). He is also co-editor of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times: A Festschrift in Honor of Mark R. Cohen (Brill, 2014), The Family in Late Antiquity: Patterns and Perceptions Across Traditions (Bialik, 2019); Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook (University of California UP, 2020), and has written numerous articles and book chapters.

Alessandra Smerilli is an economist and a Salesian Sister, Daughter of Mary Help of Christians. She holds a degree in Economics from Roma Tre University, a Ph.D. in Political Economy from Sapienza University of Rome (2006), and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK, 2014). She teaches Political Economy at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, Auxilium. She is a founding member and lecturer at the School of Civil Economy. She taught Cooperative Economics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan) and LUMSA University (Rome), Economics, Ethics, and Finance at the Pontifical Salesian University (Rome), and International Economics at the Pontifical Lateran University. The Pope appointed her Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, in April, 2022, and Board Member of the Laudato Si’ Higher Education Center, in February, 2023.

Isaiah Sterrett is the Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College. An historian of the nineteenth-century United States, Isaiah is currently at work on Freedom and Temptation: Culture, Ideas, and Politics in the Nineteenth-Century American North. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources and focused on the antebellum and Civil War eras, the study explores the connections contemporaries drew between childrearing, the home, and the exercise and preservation of individual liberty in a rapidly changing United States. Isaiah has published in American Nineteenth Century History and The New England Quarterly. He holds a Ph.D. in History (2023), as well as an M.A. and B.A. in Political Science, all from Boston College.