Prof. John D. Kwamena Ekem
President – West Africa
John David Kwamena Ekem (Dr Theol., magna cum laude, University of Hamburg) is professor of New Testament Studies and Director, Centre for Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics at Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Accra, Ghana. He occupies the Seminary’s Kwesi Disckson-Gilbert Ansre Distinguished Chair of Biblical Exegesis & Mother Tongue Hermeneutics, and serves as Translation Consultant for The Bible Society of Ghana. He is the Vice-President of Methodist University College. An ordained minister of The Methodist Church Ghana. He supervised the translation and revision of the Bible into several major Ghanaian languages and continues to do so. A member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (Society for New Testament Studies), Ekem has authored several books on mother-tongue biblical interpretation, including New Testament Concepts of Atonement in an African Pluralistic Setting (Accra: SonLife Press, 2005); Early Scriptures of the Gold Coast (Ghana) (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura / Manchester: St Jerome Publishing, 2011); and, A Simplified Greek-English Commentary on the Epistle to the Colossians (Accra: SonLife Press, 2017), adapted from the original commentaries Ekem wrote in the Asante-Twi and Mfantse dialects of Ghana.