Gideon Strauss, PhD, is the executive director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary as of January 2012. Prior to this he was the CEO of the Center for Public Justice, a think tank based in Washington DC, and editor of its publication Capital Commentary. Gideon continues as a senior fellow at CPJ. Between 1999 and 2009, he was the editor of the journal Comment for the Canadian think tank Cardus, and simultaneously the research and education director of the Christian Labour Association of Canada. Gideon continues as a senior fellow at Cardus.

Gideon received his PhD in 1995 from the university in his birth town of Bloemfontein, South Africa, for a dissertation on the ethics of public welfare. He also spent 18 months doing graduate studies at Regent College in Vancouver, BC (where he first met Walter Wright, his predecessor as executive director of the De Pree Center, and then the president of Regent College).

A tenth-generation South African, Gideon was active in the anti-apartheid movement during his youth. During the 1990s he worked on policy for a post-apartheid South Africa and served the South African Truth and Reconciliation as an interpreter.

Gideon is married to Angela (a graduate student at Fuller Theological Seminary) and they are parents to Tala and Hannah (both undergraduate students at Gordon College in Massachusetts). Gideon and Angela worship at Grace Pasadena church.

Read a recent article by Gideon entitled “Big Questions for Business Leaders” here.