Meet Our Speakers

This year’s conference brings together leading scholars on Pentecostalism in our generation.
Explore their profiles to learn more about their backgrounds and the papers they will be presenting.
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Truls Åkerlund
(Norway)

Professor of Practical Theology,
Norwegian School of Leadership & Theology

Perspectives on Pentecostal Leadership: Contextuality, Complexity, and Constructiveness

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Jonathan Allbaugh
(USA)

Dean of Missional Effectiveness,
Vanguard University

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Daniela Augustine
(Bulgaria)

Director of Graduate Studies,
Professor of Theological Ethics,
Lee University

Pentecost as the Future of Creation

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Simon Chan
(Singapore)

Past Earnest Lau Professor of Systematic Theology,
Trinity Theological College

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Bobby Chaw
(Singapore)

Executive Pastor and
Principal of School of Theology,
City Harvest Church

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Chiong Xiao Ting
(Singapore)

Translator and Theological Researcher,
City Harvest Church

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Joseph Dimitrov
(Bulgaria)

President,
Continental Theological Seminary

A Spirit-Driven Ecclesiological Tenacity:
Tested and Proven Response to Hostility and Afflictions

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Stephen Fogarty
(Australia)

President,
Alphacrucis University College

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Sun Ho
(Singapore)

Senior Pastor, City Harvest Church

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Ulrik Josefsson
(Sweden)

President, Academy of Leadership & Theology,
Associate Professor of Practical Theology,
Uppsala University

Pentecostals in Societal Engagement:
A Theology for Social Transformation

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Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
(Finland)

Professor of Systematic Theology,
Fuller Theological Seminary

“Does the Spirit Blow Where It Wills?”: Pentecostals and the Struggle of Discerning the Holy Spirit among Religions

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Byron Klaus
(USA)

Past President, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary

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Kong Hee
(Singapore)

Senior Pastor, City Harvest Church

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Peter Kuzmic
(Croatia)

Senior Distinguished Professor of World Missions & European Studies,
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

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Daniel Lim
(Singapore)

Pastor, City Harvest Church

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Julie Ma
(South Korea)

Professor of Missions and Intercultural Studies,
Oral Roberts University

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Wonsuk Ma
(South Korea)

Distinguished Professor of Global Christianity,
Oral Roberts University

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Douglas Petersen
(USA)

Past Margaret S. Smith Distinguished Professor of World Missions & Intercultural Studies, Vanguard University

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Jean-Daniel Plüss
(Switzerland) 

Chair, European Pentecostal Charismatic Research Association,
President, Swiss Global Christian Forum Foundation

After 30 Years of Ecumenical Engagement, What Next?
Lessons learned and Future Challenges in a Secularised and Polarised World

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Joel Tejedo
(Philippines)

Director, Asia Pacific Research Center,
Asia Pacific Theological Seminary

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Sanna Urvas
(Finland)

Professor of Systematic Theology,
The Theological School of Finland

Observation of Worldviews beneath Unhealthy Deliverance and Exorcistic Practices in Pentecostal communities 

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Wolfgang Vondey
(Germany)

Professor of Christian Theology & Pentecostal Studies,
University of Birmingham

The Church as the Scandal of Salvation

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Eva Wong
(Malaysia)

Director, Malaysia Pentecostal Research Centre,
Bible College of Malaysia

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As Pentecostals, we continue to focus our lives and ministries in the love of the Father through the Son by the Holy Spirit. This divine love must move us into an ever-deepening union with Him, and a transformative inner change into his image and likeness.”

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Co-Founders/Senior Pastors
City Harvest Church, Singapore

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Dr Eva Wong Suk Kyun

Director,
Malaysia Pentecostal Research Centre,
Bible College of Malaysia
(Malaysia)

Eva Wong is the director of Malaysia Pentecostal Research Centre and the editor of the Malaysian Pentecostal Journal. A Pentecostal theologian and educator, she teaches full time at the Bible College of Malaysia. An ordained Assemblies of God minister, Dr Eva is also active in the ScholarLeaders’ Women’s Peer Leader Forum, the Asian Pentecostal Society, and the Lausanne Global Analysis, which is an international publication that seeks to deliver strategic and credible insight from an international network of evangelical analysts to equip influencers of global mission.

Most recently, Dr Eva was the organiser and host of an annual Pentecostal conference to foster Pentecostal theological conversation in Malaysia.

Before she became a full-time minister and theologian, Dr Eva was an executive at MBf Finance Berhad, a financial institution. She received her PhD from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies in partnership with Middlesex University. Her fields of specialisation include Pentecostal studies and theology.

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