Elias Brasil de Souza is the director of the Biblical Research Institute at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. He previously served as a church pastor in the Southern Brazil Union. He was a professor and dean of the Theological Seminary at Northeast Brazil College in Bahia. He holds a BA and MA in theology from the Latin American Adventist Theological Seminary and a PhD in Old Testament exegesis and theology from the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University.