ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ John A. Nunes
On May 17, 2025, the Board of Regents of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ unanimously appointed Dr. John A. Nunes as the university’s ninth president, effective June 1, 2025. His permanent appointment follows a successful year of service as interim president and reflects the Board’s confidence in his ability to provide the steady, mission-focused leadership needed to guide the university forward. With a deep commitment to ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s mission of educating leaders for a global society, President Nunes brings a collaborative and community-centered approach to his work with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and partners.
Dr. Nunes’ appointment comes with the support of the Region 1 and Region 2 bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Since 2020, Dr. Nunes serves on the Academic Leaders Task Force on Campus Free Expression of the Council of Independent Colleges and Universities. Many public and private universities have adopted the task force’s recommendations about how to foster a campus culture of robust intellectual exchange during the current period of national polarization. He was also president and CEO of Lutheran World Relief and held an endowed professorship at Valparaiso University.
He is the author of five books, including Wittenberg Meets the World: Reimagining the Reformation from the Margins (2017), with Alberto Garcia; and Meant for More: In, With, and Under the Ordinary (2020). Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Nunes holds degrees from Concordia College, Ann Arbor (BA), Concordia Seminary in St. Catharines, Ontario (MDiv), and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (ThM and PhD).
He and his wife, Monique, are the parents of six children and 13 grandchildren.