Dr Andrew Butcher lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand. Dr Butcher is the Director of Research and Policy at the Asia New Zealand Foundation, a high-profile apolitical organisation based in Wellington, New Zealand.

 He is the author of a number of significant academic and popular articles and book chapters on a range of topics from social cohesion and immigration, to the church and the twenty-somethings, to suffering. He has written “A Time to Gather: Christian Meditations for the Year” (2005) and “Walking the Emmaus Journey: Reflections for the Road”. Both of these books are available online from University Bookshop, Dunedin and “Emmaus” is available from Manna Christian Stores throughout New Zealand. His next book “Bring in the New Day”, about what it means to have Christian hope, will be published in mid 2008 by Sanctuary Media.

An edited book about his grandparents experiences as missionaries in China, called “In Pleasant Places” will be published in late 2008. He is currently working on two other books: one, with Terry McGrath, on international students in New Zealand and Australia (publication date: 2008/2009); and the other on “The Questions Jesus Asked” (2009). He has been a member of the National Board of Tertiary Students’ Christian Fellowship in New Zealand since 2003 and has attended Karori Baptist Church in Wellington since 2005.

He is an associate of the Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research and a Fellow of the Asian Studies Institute, both at Victoria University of Wellington. He is also a member of New Zealand professional organisations in Sociology, Asian Studies and Systematic Theology. With degrees in History, Criminology and Sociology, he is part-way through a Bachelor of Theology majoring in Christian Thought and Practice through the University of Otago.

He has also featured several times on Radio New Zealand National, RadioLive, and in all the major dallies in New Zealand, as well as on the television programme Asia DownUnder, the Auckland radio station 95bFM and the Christian radio station Radio Rhema. He has also recorded voice-overs for television commercials on national television.