La direction académique dans la formation théologique, volume 1

DIEUMEME NOËLLISTE (PhD, Northwestern University) serves as Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Grounds Institute of Public Ethics at Denver Seminary, Denver, Colorado. A past Director of ICETE, he is president of the Caribbean Evangelical Theological Association and a member of the faculty of the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology located in Kingston,Jamaica. A native of Haiti, Dr Noelliste’s writings have focused on Caribbean theology and global theological education.

LEE WANAK holds a PhD in Education from Indiana University and a DMin in Missions from Denver Seminary. First coming to the Philippines in 1978 he trained rural lay church leaders in Mindanao and directed church-planting efforts. He has served as Dean of Asian Theological Seminary and Asia Graduate School of Theology and has written several articles on Philippine theological education. While at ATS and AGST he directed the MA in Transformational Urban Leadership and the Doctor of Education programs and chaired the Christian Education department. At William Jessup University he chaired the Intercultural Studies department. He and his wife Dottie currently live in Madison, Wisconsin.

RALPH ENLOW is President of the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE), a founding ICETE member network. Prior to assuming leadership of ABHE, Ralph served for twenty-eight years as an educational leader at Columbia International University, including six years as Senior Vice President and Provost.

STEVE HARDY has worked as a missionary educator since the mid-1970s and has lived in Ethiopia, Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa, the UK and the USA. His love is teaching, and he has served as an educational consultant with SIM, Overseas Council, Langham Partnership, and the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education. He is the author of a number of articles and an adult Sunday School curriculum on missions. He is married to LeAnne, a librarian, author of Christian fiction and editor of Christian books. Steve and LeAnne recently retired to northwest Wisconsin, USA. They have two grown daughters and three grandchildren.

MANFRED WALDEMAR KOHL serves as Ambassador for Overseas Council International, an organization that assists theological institutions, primarily in the non- Western world. He also served as Executive Director for World Vision International in Africa and Europe. He has a ThM, DMin, and ThD. He has published articles and books in the area of institutional development,theological education, and fundraising. His material has been published in English, German, Russian, Mandarin, and Portuguese.

BERNHARD OTT has been involved in theological education and academic leadership for more than thirty-five years. He holds an MA from Fresno Pacific University and a PhD from OCMS, Oxford. Currently he serves as the Chairman and Accreditation Director of the European Evangelical Accrediting Association (EEAA) and is the Academic Dean of the European School of Culture and Theology, Korntal, Germany. Bernhard and his wife have four adult children and live in Liestal, Switzerland. They are members of an Anabaptist-Mennonite congregation in Basel, where he serves as a lay minister.

PAUL SANDERS was born in the USA to a Swedish father (Baptist pastor) and a Lebanese mother. Paul holds a BA in History from Oregon State University, a Master of Divinity in Christian Education, a Master of Theology in practical theology from Western Seminary in Oregon, as well as the doctorate in Modern History from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is married to Agnès, French physician, and they have three adult children and two grandchildren. After twenty-five years of ministry in the Paris area in church planting and theological education, Paul and his family moved to Beirut (Lebanon) where he served for nearly fifteen years as academic dean and provost of the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut (www.ABTSLebanon.org), then as International Director of the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education (www.icete-edu.org) and the Middle East Association for Theological Education (www.Meate.org). The Sanders now make their home in the city of Nantes in western France.

ALBERT TING serves as the Principal of Singapore Bible College since 2006. He received his DMin, ThM and MDiv from Talbot School of Theology. His interest has been on leadership and mentoring. He sat on the Board of ATA and two seminaries in his contribution to the furtherance of theological education. He was a pastor in Los Angeles before he was called into theological education in Singapore. He is happily married to Rebecca, and together they have two children, Jeremy and Adeline.

PAUL WRIGHT has an MA in New Testament from Calvary Bible College and Seminary (Kansas City, Missouri, USA) and a PhD in Theological Education from the Seminario Teológico Centroamericano (Guatemala City, Guatemala). He has been involved in church-planting ministry in Argentina with Avant Ministries (formerly Gospel Missionary Union) since 1980. As one of the founders of the Instituto Bíblico Evangélico Mendoza (Mendoza, Argentina), he has served as Professor of Bible and Theology as well as rector since 1997. He has written articles and reviews for the Christian Education Journal, Revista Kairos and Apuntes Pastorales.