Alexander Negrov
Senior Research Fellow
Ph.D. in New Testament Studies
Main research interests: biblical hermeneutics; leadership studies; intersection of faith and public life.
Dr. Alexander I. Negrov is a theologian, leadership scholar, and founder of the Hodos Institute for Leadership Development and Research, which operates in both the United States and Ukraine. He earned a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from the University of Pretoria (magna cum laude) and holds master’s degrees in Old and New Testament from Briercrest Biblical Seminary (Canada). He has also undertaken doctoral research in leadership at Durham University Business School (UK) and completed advanced executive education at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Between 2005 and 2012, Dr. Negrov held the presidency of St. Petersburg Christian University, guiding its academic and leadership programs. His academic career includes appointments as Professor of New Testament, Director of an internationally validated master’s program in Biblical Studies, and adjunct faculty at California Baptist University and LeTourneau University in the United States.
He has been a visiting scholar or fellow at several universities, including Pacific Lutheran University, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, and the John Jay Institute (USA). He is an active member of the International Leadership Association and has presented papers at major scholarly gatherings, including the Society of Biblical Literature and the Evangelical Theological Society.
Dr. Negrov has authored and edited more than a dozen books and numerous articles in theology and leadership studies. His English-language works include Leadership in Ukraine: Studies During Wartime (Edward Elgar, 2025, with Ronald Riggio), and Hodos Leadership (2025). His articles have appeared in Religions, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, Theology of Leadership Journal. His scholarship bridges biblical hermeneutics, leadership studies, and the intersection of faith and public life.
In addition to research and teaching, Dr. Negrov has supervised numerous graduate and doctoral students, advised theological institutions, and provided consultancy to non-profit and educational organizations in Europe and North America. His current research focuses on spirituality and leadership in war and post-war settings, and theological perspectives on leadership and society.
Negrov, Alexander. Hodos Leadership. Hodos Institute Press, 2025.
Negrov, Alexander and Ronald E Riggio. Leadership in Ukraine : Studies during Wartime. (New Horizons in Leadership Studies). Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
Прокопчук Діна, Олександр Нєгров, Олексій Бєлов. Формування лідерства серед підлітків. Християнське підліткове служіння в Україні: перспективи, дослідження, рекомендації. Книгоноша, 2020.
Negrov, Alexander. Biblical Interpretation in the Russian Orthodox Church: A Historical and Hermeneutical Perspective. Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, Vol. 130. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2008.
Negrov, Alexander, Oleksandr Malov, and Dina Polishchuk-Prokopchuk. “Leadership in the Face of Trauma: A Qualitative Study of Forced Ukrainian Christian Migrants,” Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology 21.2 (2023): 157-180.
Gill R. and Alexander Negrov. “Perspectives on leadership development in post-Soviet Eurasia,” International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management 21.3 (2021): 409-429. https://doi.org/10.1177/14705958211051551.
Negrov, Alexander and Alexander Malov. “Eco-Theology and Environmental Leadership in Orthodox and Evangelical Perspectives in Russia and Ukraine” in Bradley Nassif and Tim Grass eds., Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective. Basel: MDPI, 2021: 69. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12050305.
Negrov, Alexander. “Protestantism in Europe: Russia,” Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Edited by Daniel Patte. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. p. 1022 (in co-authorship with Tatyana Nikol’skaya).
Negrov, Alexander. “Understanding the New Testament Church Within an Orthodox Hermeneutical Framework,” in Einheit der Kirche im Neuen Testament. Eds. A Alexeev, Christos Karakolis, Ulrich Luz and Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 218), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, pp. 265-275.
Negrov, Alexander I. “Three Hermeneutical Horizons of Slavic Evangelicals,” International Congregational Journal 6/1 (2006): 83-104.
Negrov, Alexander. “An Overview of Liberation Theology in Orthodox Russia,” Hervormde Teologiese Studies 61 (1&2) 2005: 327-345.
Negrov, Alexander. “Fr. Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944): A Study in the Eastern Orthodox Hermeneutical Perspective,” Hervormde Teologiese Studies 58 (1) 2002: 250-263.