Office of the President
Dr. Robert Holst Short Biography
The Rev. Dr. Robert Holst is the eighth president of Concordia University, St. Paul.
Holst is a graduate of Concordia, St. Paul, and earned his Master of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology degrees from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. He holds the Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Holst began his professional career in Papua New Guinea as a missionary and linguist. He has been involved in education in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Irvine, California and now St. Paul, Minnesota. In addition to several administrative responsibilities, he has studied, taught or led seminars in Mexico, Korea, Israel, Italy, Greece, Venezuela and Nigeria.
Dr. Holst and his wife, Lynne, have three children and six grandchildren.
