The Reverend Dr. David Emmanuel Goatley

Trustee

David Emmanuel Goatley is the executive secretary-treasurer of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, an international Christian missions agency founded in 1897, and the executive director of Lott Carey International, a global relief and development agency based in Washington, D.C. that helps improve the quality of life in marginalized communities around the world. As the chief executive officer of these two agencies, Dr. Goatley oversees vision, administration and development efforts to invest in indigenous leadership and aid programs in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America.

An ordained Baptist minister who has served as a pastor and university and seminary professor, Goatley is a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a member of the board of directors of the Save Darfur Coalition. He also serves as president of the North American Baptist Fellowship, the regional body of more than 30 Baptist denominations and organizations affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance, with a membership of more than 20 million people throughout Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Goatley received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Louisville and his Master of Divinity degree and Ph.D. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.