Lausanne Canada Leadership

Dr Robert Cousins
Director, Global Mission Initiatives

He was born and raised in Northern Ireland. He moved to Canada when he was 24 years old. Robert graduated from Ontario Bible College with a BTh. He and his wife Sheila served as missionaries in East Africa for 12 years where their two children, Andrew and Rebekah were born and raised.

Robert served as personnel director of AIM (Canada) for five years and was seconded from AIM to MissionPrep, an inter-mission cross-cultural training partnership, where he served as Director for eight years. Robert then served as Director of Tyndale Intercultural Ministries Centre (TIM Centre), seeking to engage and encourage multicultural leaders in global missions, and now serves with Lausanne Canada. Robert completed a Masters Degree in Intercultural studies from Wheaton Graduate School (1985). In 2014, he successfully completed his DMin at Tyndale Seminary. His research focused on developing a training program for equipping interculturally competent leaders.