Lausanne Movement

Dr. Daniel Bourdanné currently serves as the General Secretary of IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students). He was born in Chad and is married to Halimatou, who comes originally from Niger. They have four children. Daniel has been on staff with IFES in Francophone Africa for 16 years, first as a travelling secretary, then as Literature Secretary and, from 1995 to 2006 as Regional Secretary, responsible for overseeing IFES ministry across the region’s 20 countries. He succeeded Lindsay Brown as General Secretary in July 2007.

Daniel studied in Chad, Cameroon, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire and France. He has a PhD from the University of Abidjan in animal ecology and is a member of the International Centre of Myriapodologists– in other words he is a specialist in millipedes.

 

Daniel has served on the boards of a number of Christian organizations in Africa. Over the past few years he has led a number of significant training initiatives including the ‘Forum de Théologie pour l’Eglise’ designed to bring theological academics and local churches together, the ‘Centre Africain du Christianisme Contemporain’ – an IFES Leadership Training Centre for Francophone Africa, and the ‘Tyranus’ biblical preaching initiative.

Contact Daniel K. Bourdanné