Dr. J. Paul Nyquist is the ninth president of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Prior to his position at Moody, he served as president and CEO of Avant Ministries. He has also served as a senior pastor of two different churches and as an adjunct professor at Grace University in Omaha and Phoenix Seminary in Scottsdale, Arizona. He studied at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and later received a ThM and PhD in systematic theology from Dallas Theological Seminary.