Michael Fisch delivers opening remarks on behalf of the Atlantic Council at its Rome conference, Religious Freedom and Human Development: A New Global Platform to Change the Conversation. He previews upcoming panel discussion topics, including the relationship between freedom, development, and prosperity that is often overlooked, and the exhaustive challenges religious minorities face to access healthcare, food, education, and sanitation. He also discusses the Atlantic Council’s Freedom and Prosperity Center, which he Chairs, and how its Freedom and Prosperity Indexes use extensive data to show how individual and institutional freedoms can advance human dignity and integral human development while supporting long-term, durable prosperity.