Dan Darko, PhD
President & Executive Director
Dan is the Dean for Global Engagement and Professor of Biblical Studies at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. Prior to Taylor he was the Wilson-Ockenga Professor of Biblical Studies, and Director of Church Relations at Gordon College, MA. His ministry involvements include being a Regional Director and later the Director of Specialized Ministries & Missions in Ghana Youth for Christ. He has held pastoral positions in Ghana, Croatia, England, and the United States, and speaks at Christian conferences, seminars, and leadership training programs in Africa, Asia, Europe, and America.
He is a graduate of Ghana Christian University (Ghana), Evangelical Theological Seminary (Croatia), Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and Leeds University (UK). He earned his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from King’s College London (University of London, UK). He is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS) and maintains active membership at the Catholic Biblical Association, Institute of Biblical Research and Society of Biblical Literature.
He is the author of is Against Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Beings in Relation to Communal Identity and the Moral Discourse of Ephesians (Carlisle: Hippo Books, 2020), No Longer Living as the Gentiles: Differentiation and Shared Ethical Values in Ephesians 4.17-6.9 (London: T&T Clark, 2008), editor (with Beth Snodderly) of First the Kingdom of God: Global Voices on Global Mission (Pasadena: William Carey International University Press, 2014) and a contributing author of several books including Dictionary of Paul and the Letters (IVP, 2023), Global Voices: Reading the Bible in the Majority World (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2013), The Handbook to Social Identity and the New Testament (London: T&T Clark, 2014), Exploring Biblical Kinship (CBQMS 55; Washington DC: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2015) and several articles. He is also a contributing writer in the Africa Study Bible.
Raised by a single mother, Dan’s commitment to empowering young women is rooted in observing great leadership and business qualities of his own mother and how some of his gifted female classmates at elementary school were left behind with no High School but encouraged to marry very early. As a father of two young women and son of a successful businesswoman, he knows that women can do as much as men can do at every sector and level of leadership – if they are empowered with skills to do so. Africa Potential is committed to doing just that.
