Deen Kemsley is the Exxon Professor of Accounting at Tulane University. He also conducts training programs for stock and bond analysts on Wall Street. He has published extensively in premier business journals, and his research has played an important role in national debates on taxes, dividends, and debt. In addition, he has earned top teaching awards at Columbia and Tulane, and his students at Yale have honored him for his superb lectures. Most of all, however, he loves the Lord, so for many years he has looked forward to applying his teaching talents to the witness of Jesus Christ.

Deen and his wife, Kristin, are the parents of nine children. They live in rural Newtown, Connecticut, and Deen often speaks of Christ to congregations throughout parts of Connecticut and New York.