Reid Larkin Neilson is the assistant academic vice president (AAVP) for religious scholarly publications at Brigham Young University (BYU).
After graduating from BYU in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in international relations, he worked for Arthur Andersen and The Walt Disney Company's Strategic Planning Division in Tokyo, where he had served years previously as an LDS Church missionary in Japan.
[4] He returned to BYU for master's degrees in American history and business administration, which he received in 2001 and 2002.
[5] Neilson completed a PhD in American religious history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006.
[7] In January 2019, the LDS Church announced that he would begin service in July 2019 as president of the Washington DC North Mission.