Dr. Wiest is currently the research director for TBC. He has also been a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong’s Centre of Asian Studies. Dr. Wiest was also the founder and research director of the Center for Mission Research & Study at Maryknoll, coordinator of the Maryknoll in China History Project, and research director of the Maryknoll Society of Oral History Program.