Allen Yeh, D.Phil.

Allen Yeh is Dean and VP of Academic Affairs at International Theological Seminary located near Los Angeles, as well as the Creative Director of the Young Adult Initiative at Denver Seminary. He was formerly Professor of Intercultural Studies and Missiology for 16 years at Biola University. His areas of geographical expertise are Latin America and China, and also he is interested in generational dynamics, particularly ministry to Gen Z. He has served on the Board of Trustees for American Baptist International Ministries, the Foundation for Theological Education in Southeast Asia; and the Evangelical Missiological Society. He is the Learning Synthesis Manager for the Lausanne Generations Conversation, and a Research Fellow with the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College. He is also an adjunct professor of World Christianity at Palm Beach Atlantic University, and an annual summer professor of missions for Campus Crusade for Christ's Institute for Biblical Studies (IBS). He earned his B.A. from Yale, M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell, M.Th. from Edinburgh, and D.Phil. from Oxford. Allen has been to over 70 countries on every continent, to study, speak at conferences, do missions work, and experience the culture. He is also the author of Polycentric Missiology: 21st Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere (IVP, 2016), and co-editor (along with Tite Tienou, former Dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) of Majority World Theologies: Theologizing from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Ends of the Earth (William Carey, 2018). He is an avid marathon runner and violin player. He is joyfully married to his wife Arianna (a Professor of Communication at Biola) and they have a delightful son, Asher (b. 2019).