Dr. Peter Lee is a missiologist whose life mission is to equip the global body of Christ to participate in God’s mission through mentoring, teaching, and researching. He has over three decades of ministry and professional experience in multicultural and intercultural contexts around the world. In addition to his international mission experiences, he brings his missiological perspective, holistic view of Christian ministry, and strategic thinking to his faculty role at Trinity.

Dr. Lee has worked with Operation Mobilization (OM). After serving in immigrant congregations in the Los Angeles area, he worked for ten years in North Africa, during which he lived out a life of witness to Christ among Muslims, led a multinational ministry team, and trained international business and development workers in cultural adaptation and intercultural skills. He coached and mentored numerous mission workers and expatriate professionals during that time.

He was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea and immigrated to the U. S. as a teenager. He sensed God’s calling to cross-cultural missions when he participated in Urbana Missions Conference as a college student, which entirely altered his life and career path. He studied mechanical engineering as an undergraduate and worked overseas on plant engineering projects. Dr. Lee has lived in four countries, traveled to dozens of countries on five continents, and regularly collaborates with Christian workers around the world through his work in mission research. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister who frequently preaches and speaks at local congregations and conferences in the Chicagoland and beyond.

Dr. Lee’s research interests include transformative intercultural social relations, multiethnic ministries, studies of cultural globalization, social scientific research methods, international migration, Christians and Muslims in the diaspora, gender and sexuality issues in Christian mission, and social changes in the Muslim world.