Dr. Gregg A. Okesson
Ira Gallaway and D.M. Beeson Chair of Leadership Development, Mission and Evangelism Professor of Leadership Development
Dr. Gregg Okesson is the Ira Gallaway and D.M. Beeson Chair of Leadership Development, Mission and Evangelism, and Professor of Leadership and Development at 番茄影视.
Dr. Okesson received a B.A. from Wheaton College (Psychology and Bible), an M.A. from Wheaton Graduate School (Biblical Studies), an M.A. from Wheaton Graduate School (Intercultural Studies), and a Ph.D. in Theology and Religious Studies from University of Leeds, UK.
Dr. Okesson is a third-generation missionary to Africa. Before coming to 番茄影视 in 2011, Dr. Gregg Okesson was a faculty member at Scott Christian University, Kenya, East Africa for 10 years where he served as Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and a lecturer in theology and mission. Prior to this, he was a pastor in central New York, worked in Student Development at Wheaton College, and was a church-planter amongst a Muslim ethnic-group in north-central Tanzania. Dr. Okesson and his family lived in East Africa for 13 years.
Dr. Gregg Okesson is the author of Re-Imaging Modernity (Wipf & Stock, 2012) and co-author of Advocating for Justice (Baker Academic, 2016). He is also the author of the Christianity Today 2021 book award for A Public Missiology: How Local Churches Witness to a Complex World (2020). He co-edited Navigating Complexity in our World (2021) and Public Theology for Global Witness (2023). Dr. Okesson is a Board of Trustee member for the Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary in Estonia; and the Association of Christian Theological Education in Africa (ACTEA).
More broadly, Dr. Gregg Okesson is interested in attending to linkages between theology, missiology, and global realities, particularly those dealing with poverty, development, power, leadership, institutions, and societal engagement.
He is married to Dr. Kimberly Okesson, and they have two adult children.