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Dr. Billy Wilson is president of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and global co-chair for Empowered21, a network helping shape the future of the Spirit-empowered movement. He also chairs the Pentecostal World Fellowship, is a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals, and served as the executive officer for the 2006 Azusa Street Centennial. A global influencer and dynamic speaker, Wilson authored several books and hosts the television program World Impact with Billy Wilson. Billy and his wife, Lisa, reside in Tulsa, where they enjoy time with their family.

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Dr. Wonsuk Ma a Korean Pentecostal, serves as Executive Director of ORU's Center for Spirit-Empowered Research, and is a Distinguished Professor of Global Christianity at Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He previously served as Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, UK. He serves as Co-chair of Scholars Consultation, Empowered21.

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Dr. Kathaleen Reid-Martinez holds a Ph.D. in Speech Communication, an M.A. in Mass Communication, and a B.A. in English. She has served in higher education working as a faculty member, administrator, and consultant in both the public and private sector. Currently, she is Provost at Oral Roberts University where she is charged to expand online learning initiatives and globalization. As a professor, she teaches in leadership and communication while serving on national and international committees to advance leadership and contemporary means of developing and implementing transformative education.

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Dr. Daniel Isgrigg (Bangor University, Wales) is Assistant Professor and Director of the Holy Spirit Research Center and Archives at Oral Roberts University. He is an Assemblies of God ordained minister with over 20 years pastoral experience. His research and publishing interests are in the areas of Pentecostal history and Oral Roberts studies.

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Opoku Oniyah is president of the Bible Society of Ghana, and the immediate past chairman of the Church of Pentecost, Ghana. He also serves as Co-chair of the Scholars Consultation of Empowered21.

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Todd M. Johnson is the Paul E. and Eva B. Toms Distinguished Professor of Mission and Global Christianity and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Johnson is visiting Research Fellow at Boston University’s Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs leading a research project on international religious demography. He is co-editor of the Atlas of Global Christianity (Edinburgh University Press) and co-author of the World Christian Encyclopedia (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed.) and World Christian Trends (William Carey Library). He is co-editor of the World Christian Database (Brill) and World Religion Database (Brill).

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Dr. Gina A. Zurlo is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity and received her Ph.D. from Boston University in 2017. Her research focuses on the intersection between international religious demography, world Christianity, and the history of the social scientific study of religion. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, where she is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Religion and Demography and works on the World Religion Database (Brill).

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Emmanuel Kwesi Anim serves as the Director of the School of Theology, Mission, and Leadership at Pentecost University College in Accra, Ghana and is an Associate Minister of the Pentecost International Worship Center. He was formerly Principal of the Pentecost Theological Seminary at Gomoa Fetteh in Ghana. He is a visiting lecturer at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture in Ghana, and the All Nations Christian College in the United Kingdom.

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Dr. Jeffrey Lamp was born in South Dakota, but lived in Tulsa from age 10. He completed his B.S. at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, undertook seminary at ORU and received his Ph.D. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago. He was ordained in the United Methodist Church as a Deacon in 1991 and an elder in 1999. Dr. Lamp pastored in the United Methodist Church for eight years. Having always wanted to teach, for three years he led classes at ORU part-time before becoming a full-time professor in fall 2000. Dr. Lamp is married to wife Monica and enjoys spending time with his two grandsons and granddaughter.

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The late Dr. Vinson Synan was a leading scholar, historian, author, and alliance leader within the Pentecostal movement, having held leadership roles in the Holy Spirit Research Center at Oral Roberts University, the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, the North American Renewal Service Committee, and at the School of Divinity at Regent University, where he was Dean. More recently, Synan returned to ORU as Interim Dean of the College of Theology and Ministry, was an ORU Scholar in Residence, and was inaugurated into Virginia’s Historical Hall of Fame. His passing in 2020 left behind his wife, Carol, their four children, and their families.

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