Dan Smithwick is founder and president of the Nehemiah Institute and author of PEERS, the only professionally validated Biblical worldview assessment. A 1972 mathematics graduate (Pi Mu Epsilon) who spent twenty years with AT&T before founding Nehemiah in 1986, he converted to Christianity at 33 and now serves on the CEI board from his home in Sarasota, FL, where he and his wife Jean raise five children and fourteen grandchildren.