Alberto R. Timm, PhD, is a specialist in the development of Seventh-day Adventist doctrines and theology. Timm has served as a district pastor; director of the Brazilian Ellen G. White Research Center; dean of the Graduate School of Theology, Brazil Adventist University, Sao Paulo; rector of the multicampus Latin American Adventist Theological Seminary; and Spirit of Prophecy coordinator for the South American Division. He is currently an associate director of the Ellen G. White Estate, Inc., in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, and a member of the Biblical Research Institute committee. He is married to Marly L. Timm, and they have three children: Suellen, William, and Shelley.