Ryan K. Olsen

Elder Ryan K. Olsen was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 2, 2022. At the time of his call, he had been serving as a member of the Twelfth Quorum of the Seventy in the Utah Area. He currently serves in the Central America Area Presidency.

Elder Olsen has served in several Church callings, including full-time missionary in the Argentina Resistencia Mission, stake mission president, high councilor, bishop, stake president, counselor in a ward Young Men presidency, president of the Uruguay Montevideo West Mission from 2016 to 2019, and Area Seventy.

Elder Olsen received a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from the University of Utah. He worked in a variety of business fields. He worked as area president of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. until his call as a mission president in 2016. At the time of his call as a General Authority, he was working as area senior vice president of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Ryan Kirk Olsen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 11, 1974. He married Julie Darrington in 1998. They are the parents of four children.