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Peter Saunders
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Peter Saunders was born in New Zealand and originally trained as a General Surgeon, before serving with the Africa Inland Mission in Kenya and completing two years mission training at All Nations Christian College in the UK. Since 1992 he has worked in full-time Christian ministry first with Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF), a UK-based organisation with around 4,000 UK doctors and 1,000 medical student members, as both Head of Student Ministries (1992-1999) and CEO (2000-2018) and then as CEO of the International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA) which brings together over 100 national associations of Christian doctors and dentists. His work has involved leadership training, teaching evangelism, apologetics and ethics, medical mission, writing, editing and media work. He was a foundation member of the ELF steering group and was Director of the Care Not Killing Alliance (2006-2018). Peter is married to Kirsty and they have three sons, two married, and four grandchildren. They live in St Albans, UK and are members of Spicer Street Free Evangelical Church.