Bekele Shanko:

Global Vice President of Campus Crusade for Christ – Global Church Movements (GCM), was born and raised in Ethiopia. Before joining Campus Crusade for Christ, he worked for five years as a head of information management for the National HIV/AIDS Control Program in Ethiopia. Bekele holds a B.S. degree in Statistics and Mathematics from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, M.A. in Organizational Leadership from Azusa Pacific University, and a doctorate in Global Transformational Leadership from Bakke Graduate University. He joined full-time missionary work with Campus Crusade for Christ International in Ethiopia in 1993. Since then, he has held diverse leadership roles for the organization including National Director for Ethiopia for five years, Regional Director for Southern and Eastern Africa for 11 years, and Global Vice President since 2010. Bekele also serves as President of the Global Alliance for Church Multiplication (GACX), a global network of church-planting organizations, which he helped to launch in 2011; President of the Global Institute for Transformational Leadership (GITL), which he founded in 2008. He recently published Never Alone: From Ethiopian Villager to Global Leader . Bekele and his wife Shewa have four children and live in Orlando, Florida.