Paul Chitwood has served as president of IMB since 2018. He previously served as executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention since 2011. For 18 years prior to that, Chitwood served as the pastor of local churches of varying sizes. Chitwood earned the Master of Divinity and Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and served as a faculty member of the seminary between 2002 and 2018. He currently is pursuing a master’s degree in nonprofit administration from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He and his wife, Michelle, have four children.