Chris Seiple, Ph.D., began operating at the intersection of religion & realpolitik in 2003, when he became president of the Institute for Global Engagement, and founded The Review of Faith & International Affairs. He has practiced relational diplomacy throughout Eurasia, Africa & the Middle East. He played a significant role in the removal of Vietnam from the U.S. State Department’s religious freedom violations list (2007), and later Uzbekistan (2019), about which he developed a theory of change. He has served as senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State, chairing the religion and foreign affairs  working group (2011-2013), and as senior advisor to USAID, regarding the U.S. government’s first-ever summit on Strategic Religious Engagement (2020). He is co-editor of The Routledge Handbooks on Religion & Security, and Religious Literacy, Pluralism & Global Engagement, and a co-creator of The Dialogue of Declarations. He is a senior fellow at Love Your Neighbor Community and the University of Haifa. He previously advised the Templeton Religion Trust in the creation of the Covenantal Pluralism Initiative.