Gerrit W. Gong

Gerrit W. Gong was sustained a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 3, 2010. In February 2009, when the Inquiry Conference took place, he was Assistant to the President for Planning and Assessment at Brigham Young University. Dr. Gong holds PhD and master’s of philosophy degrees in international relations from Oxford University, England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has researched and taught at Oxford, Johns Hopkins (School of Advanced International Studies), Georgetown, and Brigham Young Universities. At the invitation of the U.S. Secretary of Education, Gong served on the Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee for Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI). He participated in two national education summits. He worked for twenty years at the U.S. Department of State and as China Chair and Asia Director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. He has also worked with multinational companies, nongovernmental organizations, and research institutes around the world. Gerrit Gong was raised in Palo Alto, California. He and his wife, Susan, have four sons and a yellow Labrador named Huckleberry.