Heather Templeton Dill is former president of the John Templeton Foundation (2015-2025). 

Prior to assuming this role, she served as executive liaison to the president under her father, the late Dr. Jack Templeton. Dill is the granddaughter of the late Sir John Templeton. She served as a trustee of the John Templeton Foundation from 1997-2003, and previously served on the Templeton Religion Trust steering committee and the Templeton World Charity Foundation board and is currently a member of the board of First Trust Bank Limited.

Jeffrey Dill is Affiliate Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies in the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University.

He is also the Donchian Research Fellow for Character and Culture at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.

Gail L. Hanson served as chief financial officer of Aurora Health Care Inc. from 2011 to her retirement in 2018. Prior to that, she was deputy executive director for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board from 2004 to 2011. 

Hanson was senior vice president, treasurer and CFO at Cobalt Corp. and Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wisconsin serving in a variety of roles from 1984 to 2004 and was an audit manager at Price Waterhouse where she worked from 1977 to 1984.  She is a certified public accountant, a chartered financial analyst and a Fellow of the Life Management Institute. 

Brian M. McNeill, M.B.A., is Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Board of Directors and a Class C director. He served as the president and CEO of Southco from 2000 to August 2016.

In 2012, Mr. McNeill led the global expansion and creation of a new parent company for Southco called TouchPoint, Inc., of which he is president and CEO.

Robert Emmons is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. 

He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Positive Psychology.

Jenna currently serves and was one of the first members of the Member Committee that helps plan the annual meetings for the Templeton philanthropies.

She recently completed a two year term on the Templeton Prize Review Committee – a truly inspiring experience. Jenna has participated in many Foundation-related activities including the Member Development program in 2019 and representing the Templeton family at the Global Family Sejour in 2018 and 2019.

David Lahti is an Associate Professor of Biology at Queens College, City University of New York, where he runs a Behavior & Evolution laboratory focusing mainly on learned behavior in birds and humans.

Prof. Lahti received a BS in biology and history from Gordon College. He received a PhD in moral philosophy and the philosophy of biology at the Whitefield Institute, Oxford.

Beck A. Taylor, Ph.D., is currently president and professor of economics at Samford University (Birmingham, Ala.). 

He earned his undergraduate degree from Baylor with majors in economics and finance, then was employed as an analyst for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in Houston, Tex. He went on to earn the M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.).

Dr. Durre S. Ahmed is Chairperson and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Gender and Culture, Lahore, Pakistan, author, and practicing psychotherapist.

An internationally acknowledged expert on gender and Islam, her interdisciplinary interests include the social-psychology of religion, particularly Islam, and she has extensively researched the psychology of women’s spirituality and issues related to gender, culture, religion and science in the context of Muslim societies.

T. Ritson Ferguson (“Ritson”) is a Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) and an experienced alternative asset investment manager.

He is the retired CEO of a $130B+ real asset manager, CBREIM Global, where he managed the firm with 1,500 employees in 30+ countries. Ritson also is a Qualified Financial Expert with Audit Committee experience. He served as a Captain in the US Air Force. He earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Jeff Schloss is a Senior Scholar of BioLogos, and holds the T. B. Walker Chair of Natural and Behavioral Sciences at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He also directs Westmont’s Center for Faith, Ethics, and the Life Sciences. 

As Senior Scholar of BioLogos, Schloss provides writing, speaking, and scholarly research on topics that are central to the values and mission of BioLogos and represent BioLogos in dialogues with other Christian organizations.

Professor Nidhal Guessoum is an Algerian astrophysicist who received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at San Diego and spent two years as a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. 

His research focuses on gamma radiation, mainly from the Milky Way Galaxy, but, lately, also from other sources in the Universe. In addition to this work, he also lectures and writes about the interface between science and religion in general, and science and Islam in particular.