Clinton Wahlen is an associate director of the Biblical Research Institute (BRI) at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Before coming to the BRI in 2008, he taught New Testament and Greek for eleven years at seminaries in Russia and in the Philippines. He also pastored for seven years in Northern California, where he was converted from atheism and earned his first degree in theology. Dr. Wahlen received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University.