Kent Annan is Co-director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College, where he leads an M.A. in Humanitarian and Disaster Leadership program.

He is the author of You Welcomed Me, Slow Kingdom Coming, After Shock, and Following Jesus through the Eye of the Needle – and is co-founder of Spiritual First Aid and co-host The Better Samaritan blog and podcast.

He writes for many national publications and speaks regularly around the country. He lives near Chicago with his wife and two children.