Wesley D. Balda (PhD, University of Cambridge) is president of the Simeon Institute, a nonprofit organization creating crisis management capacity in the U.S. and internationally since 1992, and has also led executive management and PhD programs at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, served as assistant dean for Portland programs at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business and as executive director of the Oregon Business Institute. He also worked as executive director of the Centre for Advancing International Management (AIM Centre) and as professor of management at St. George's University in Grenada, West Indies. He was the founding dean for George Fox University's School of Management.