Loving our Neighbors for the Common Good: Subsidiarity, Responsibility, and Change

Rev. Robert A. Sirico is the president and co-founder of the Acton Institute and pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His writings on religious, political, economic, and social matters are published in a variety of journals, including: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the London Financial Times, the Washington Times, the Detroit News, and National Review. Rev. Sirico is often called upon by members of the broadcast media for statements regarding economics, civil rights, and issues of religious concern, and has provided commentary for CNN, ABC, the BBC, NPR, and CBS' 60 Minutes, among others. In his popular book, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy, Rev. Sirico shows how a free economy is the best way to meet society’s material needs. Rev. Sirico holds dual Italian and American citizenship.

Tandean Rustandy is the founder and CEO of PT Arwana Citramulia Tbk. Presently, Mr. Rustandy sits on the Global Advisory Board and Council of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, is a member of the Yale School of Management Advisory Board, and also serve as Advisory Board of the University of Indonesia’s Master of Management Program. 

Karla Boersma is co-founder and Director of Operations of Refo500, the international platform for knowledge, expertise, ideas, products, and events, specializing in the 500 year legacy of the Reformation, and Program Director of the Coram Deo Program. She edited and published several books related to the Reformation.

Trey Dimsdale, J.D. is the director of program outreach at the Acton Institute. He holds degrees in law, theology, and ethics and has worked as an attorney, educator, non-profit administrator, and pastor.  He is the co-editor of Work in Christian Perspective (SCM, 2018) and an editor of a forthcoming volume on Christianity and populism. He has spoken around the world on issues as diverse as housing policy, philosophy of law, and religious freedom.  He served as a clerk for state and federal trial judges as well as a state appellate judge, and is an active member of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, a research fellow for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and is a member of the State Bar of Texas.

Adam J. MacLeod, J.D. is Associate Professor at Faulkner University, Jones School of Law; a Thomas Edison Fellow in the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at George Mason University; and a former visiting fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is co-editor of Foundations of Law (Carolina Academic Press 2017) and author of Property and Practical Reason (Cambridge University Press 2015) and dozens of scholarly articles and essays. He holds degrees from Gordon College and the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Herman Selderhuis, Ph.D. (1961) is President of the Theological University Apeldoorn (the Netherlands) and Professor of Church History and Church Polity. He is also Director of Refo500 and Program Director of the Coram Deo Program. Selderhuis has published extensively on the history and theology of the Reformation and is a regular speaker at international conferences.

Richard Turnbull, Ph.D. holds a degree in Economics and Accounting and spent over eight years as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Young. He also served as the youngest ever member of the Press Council. Richard also holds a first class honours degree in Theology and Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Durham. He was ordained into the ministry of the Church of England in 1994. 

Richard served in the pastoral ministry for over 10 years. He has authored several books, is a member of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Gabriela Urbanova, Ph.D. serves as a policy advisor at the European Parliament and as head of staff in the office of Slovak MEP Branislav  Škripek, where she is responsible for advising on economic and employment policies. She also serves as a board member of SALLUX, a Christian think tank headquartered in the Netherlands.  A strong advocate for the emerging study of relational economics, Dr. Urbanova holds a PhD. in International Economics and teaches courses in international organizations and European integration at the State University of Slovakia. She also works as a business consultant in Vienna and Bratislava.