Alec

Hill

Alec Hill is president emeritus of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA. His primary focus is mentoring rising leaders. For 14 years, he served as president before being diagnosed with cancer. He received a successful bone-marrow transplant from his brother Grant as donor. A year of quasi-isolation followed.

Prior to InterVarsity, Alec served as dean of the School of Business and Economics at Seattle Pacific University and professor of law and ethics. SPU has honored him both as Professor of the Year and Alumnus of the Year. He also served as regional director for World Relief.

Alec holds a law degree from the University of Washington as well as an MA in Biblical Literature and a BA in History from SPU. He has written widely in the fields of business ethics and the First Amendment. His book, Just Business: Christian Ethics for the Marketplace, now in its third edition, has been tranlated into Chinese, Russian, Korean, adn Indonesian.

He resides near Seattle with his wife, Mary, whom he has known since they were 12 and 11 years old, respectively. They have two daughters, Laura and Carolyn, both attorneys. He loves road trips, biographies, and the ill-fated Seattle Mariners. He serves as a visiting faculty member at Regent College (Canada) and as an adjuct instructor at SPU. He is also on the board of directors of Christianity Today.