David Brighton Timmins is a graduate of the University of Utah with two Masters degrees and a PhD from Harvard. He served for 30 years as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer including postings as Deputy Economic Advisor to the US Mission to the OECD in Paris, Exec to the US Ambassador to NATO, Deputy Director of the State Department Office of European Political/Economic Affairs, Counselor of Embassy in Morocco and Guatemala, and Charge d'Affaires a.i . at his last two posts. Following retirement he taught International Finance and Economics at Francisco Marroquin University, and subsequently at the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (the two largest and most prestigious private universities in Guatemala and Mexico respectively). Later still he taught at the American University of Paris -- where he also served as Consultant to the OECD and as a member of the doctoral examination panel of the Sorbonne. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Guatemalan-American Bi-National Center, was Director of the American Chamber of Commerce In Guatemala, and Security Advisor to the International Energy Agency in Paris. He has also been Business Manager of the American Cathedral in Paris and the International School of Beijing. He was an (unsuccessful) 1996 candidate for the Utah Second District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. ` His Church service includes the Presidencies of an Elders Quorum and two Sunday Schools, Branch President, two District Presidencies plus a term as President of a third District, four High Councils, two Bishoprics, and two Stake Presidencies. and Counselor in the Romania Mission Presidency. He has been published in The Foreign Service Journal, PSA - A Journal of Political Thought, The Journal of the Southwestern Economic Association, The Brown Journal of International Affairs, Sunstone, Dialogue, and The Millennial Star.