JOHN WEISER currently serves as Chairman of the Senior Advisory Council of the United Religions Initiative, the world's largest grassroots interfaith organization. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of the Graduate Theological Union, a partnership of nine seminaries of differing denominations. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Weiser served as General Counsel of Bechtel Group, Inc., an international engineering construction firm. Earlier, he was a partner and member of the management committee of Shearman & Sterling, a major Wall Street law firm. He and his late wife, Maria, had nine children, one of whom died as a toddler; they have eleven grandchildren. He is currently married to Susan Cony.