David P. King

Board Member

David P. King is the Karen Lake Buttrey Director of the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving and Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies within the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Having served local churches and national faith-based organizations, he is fueled by facilitating conversations with faith leaders, donors, and civic leaders (of all generations) around the intersections of faith, giving, and the public good. In 2022, he served as the Fulbright Scotland Distinguished Scholar at the University of Edinburgh. His first book, God’s Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism (UPenn Press, 2019) won the Peter Dobkin Hall Prize for the best book in the history of philanthropy. He regularly contributes to national media outlets such as The Washington Post, The Economist, The Atlantic, Religion News Service, The Conversation, Christianity Today, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy.