The ICPL has a 15-member Executive Committee charged with policy-making and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the organization. Members of this committee are drawn from the Board of Directors.

Anthony J. Barsamian is the managing partner of Hutchings, Barsamian, Cross & Mandelcorn, LLP. His practice areas include Business and Commercial Transactions, Business Succession Planning, Estate and Trusts, Estate Administration, Real Estate, Zoning, Immigration, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), and his J.D. from Suffolk University School of Law. Anthony has served on the boards of national non-profit organizations and has spoken extensively throughout the country on the topic of on-line dispute resolution. He currently serves as a Board Member of the National Council of Churches and the Armenian Assembly of America. He lives in Sherborn with his wife Nancy and their two children.

An ordained American Baptist minister specializing in institutional transformation, Dr. Nick Carter, President of Andover Newton Theological School, is known both for his work in the local church and his national leadership on issues of peace and justice. Notably, he was the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Beverly, Mass., for over ten years and in the late 1980s he was the executive director of SANE/FREEZE, the nation's largest peace and justice organization. During this time, Carter led a delegation to the Reagan-Gorbachev Summit Talks in Geneva, Switzerland, and while there met directly with Soviet Premier Gorbachev. For Carter's "prophetic voice and empowering leadership in the search for peace," he was presented the Dahlberg Peace Award in 1986 (one of the Baptists' highest honors), a recognition also given to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and William Sloan Coffin. Recently, he founded Wayfinders Consulting, a Boston-based firm providing strategic counsel to senior executives in religious and non-profit organizations.

Father Walter Cuenin was ordained a Roman Catholic priest at St. Peter's in Rome in 1970. He has served in parishes in North Andover, Lexington, and Marlborough. Presently he is Pastor of Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Newton, Mass. Father Cuenin has a doctorate in sacred theology from the Gregorian University in Rome and has been very active in interfaith dialogue, conducting interfaith pilgrimages to Israel and Greece. He has served as chairperson of the Newton interfaith clergy association and is a permanent member on the radio show "Talking Religion."

The Rev. Dr. Ralph H. Elliott was interim president of Andover Newton Theological School and had been provost and vice president for academic life of The Divinity Schools at Colgate Rochester, Crozer and Bexley Hall in Rochester, N.Y. He has been professor and head of the department of Old Testament, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City and has taught at universities and seminaries around the world. He was the senior minister at major churches in Chicago, White Plains and Albany, N.Y., and is the author of eight books and many articles.

Dr. Valerie Elverton Dixon is Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Andover Newton Theological School and previously taught at the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. She received her MA and PhD from Temple University and her courses and public lectures focus on ethics in society and their theological basis.

Dr. David M. Gordis is President and Professor of Rabbinics at Hebrew College and founding Director of the National Center for Jewish Policy Studies. He has lectured and written extensively on the subjects of Jewish life in America and Israel, Israel/Diaspora relations and Judaism in America and Israel. Prior to assuming the presidency of Hebrew College in 1993, Dr. Gordis was vice president, provost, and associate professor of Talmud at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and lecturer on Jewish law at UCLA. He has also served as vice president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee and the founding executive director of the Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel. Dr. Gordis holds BA and MA degrees from Columbia University and Master of Hebrew Literature and Doctor of Philosophy in Talmud degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where he was ordained.

Dr. Amer Malik, MD, Medical Director for AmericasDoctor.com, has conducted over 17 clinical trials during his research career. A graduate of Imperial College, University of London, Dr. Malik is board certified in internal medicine. He maintains his academic affiliations as an assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Malik has authored numerous articles, abstracts and newsletters for peer reviewed medical journals based on his experiences and research findings.

Reverend Thomas R. McKibbens has been the Senior Minister of The First Baptist Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, since February, 2003, following 12 years as Senior Minister at the First Baptist Church in Newton, Massachusetts. A pastor and seminary professor for the past 30 years, he has taught at Harvard Divinity School, Boston University School of Theology and Andover Newton Theological School. Reverend McKibbens also serves as a Trustee of Andover Newton Theological School, where he is Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee.

Dr. Rodney L. Petersen is Executive Director of the Boston Theological Institute (BTI), the consortium of Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant theological schools, seminaries and university divinity schools in the Greater Boston area. In addition to this work with the BTI, Dr. Petersen teaches in both the member schools and overseas in the areas of history and ethics, currently focusing on issues of religion and conflict. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., he serves on several of their committees and assists as interim pastor of the Allston Congregational Church (U.C.C.). Prior to coming to the Boston area, Dr. Petersen taught conflict analysis at several universities in the United States and worked with churches in France and Eastern Europe. A graduate of Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School, and Princeton Theological Seminary, he is author and editor of books and articles in the realm of religion and society.

Robert M. Sarly is Senior Vice President and Senior Financial Consultant at Smith Barney Citigroup, and has worked as project director for Adibi Harris Associates' Ahwaz Project and program analyst for the Tehran Project in the late 1970s. He holds a bachelor's in architecture from MIT and a Master of Science in architecture and town planning from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Sarly serves on a variety of non-profit boards and committees.

Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion and Research Associate at the Institute for Culture and World Affairs at Boston University. He has lived and taught at universities in the United States, Israel and in Hungary, where he was a Fulbright Fellow from 1990-1992. He lived in Israel for nearly 20 years, and was a member of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom in the early 1970's. His most recent of many books is Modest Claims, Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Notre Dame University Press, 2004). With the help of major grants from the Ford Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts, Dr. Seligman is working on the problem of religion and toleration. Part of this work is devoted to establishing school curricula for teaching tolerance from a religious perspective. In this endeavor he is working with colleagues in Berlin, Sarajevo and Jerusalem to develop the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life, which leads seminars on religion and the public square in different parts of the world.

Rabbi Sanford Seltzer is Director of the Interreligious Center on Public Life and spiritual leader of Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass. Ordained at the Hebrew Union College, he has served as lecturer in Judaism at Andover Newton Theological School and St. John's Seminary, and as a pastoral fellow at McLean Hospital. He was the first director of the Commission on Jewish Outreach, the Department of Jewish Family Concerns and the Commission on Religious Living of Reform Judaism. A contributor to numerous journals, his latest work is When There Is No Other Alternative: A Spiritual Guide for Jewish Couples Contemplating Divorce.

Enid Shapiro, ACSW, LICSW, is former Director of Community Relations at Coolidge House Nursing Care Center in Brookline, Mass. She has served as Director of Social Work Services at Jewish Memorial Hospital and Supervisor of Gerontology for Jewish Family and Children's Services. Among her many community leadership roles, Shapiro is a member of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston, serving on its post-Soviet Jewry Committee, and a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs.

Reverend John Stendahl is pastor at the Lutheran Church of the Newtons in Newton, Mass. Ordained in 1974, he graduated Yale Divinity School with highest honors for his Master of Divinity. He has held a variety of positions on several boards, including Lutheran Children and Family Services of Massachusetts and the Amherst Interfaith Clergy.

Dr. Howard Weintraub