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Dr Tom Harvey’s expertise is in China and Southeast Asian Church and State. In Singapore he served as Chair of the Theological Review and Response Committee of the Presbyterian Church, Singapore and as an executive board member of the National Council of Churches, Singapore. He authored Acquainted With Grief: Wang Mingdao’s Stand for the Persecuted Church in China as well as numerous articles on Christianity and Christian social engagement in Asia and Southeast Asia. Tom is a member of the Lausanne Congress Global Diaspora Network and European Coordinator of the Lausanne European Diaspora Educator’s Group and is a missionary co-worker with the Presbyterian Church USA.

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Vinoth Ramachandra lives in Sri Lanka. He served with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in various leadership roles for over four decades. He has encouraged Christian students and professors develop a holistic, dialogical engagement with the world of the university; and has written several essays and books addressing social and political challenges Christians face in various national contexts. He blogs occasionally at https://vinothramachandra.wordpress.com.

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Kirk J. Franklin (PhD, University of Pretoria, South Africa) is a researcher, author, educator, and speaker about global mission. Kirk is an adjunct lecturer at the Melbourne School of Theology (Australia) and associate faculty at OCMS in its Integrated Mission Leadership program (IML). His most recent co-authored book with Dr Paul Bendor-Samuel of OCMS is The Mission Matrix: Mission Theologies for Diverse Mission Landscapes (Oxford: Regnum, 2024). Kirk is also a missiologist with the Wycliffe Global Alliance, where his current project is working with a small team to write a book about collaborating in mission.

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