After leading the Religious Freedom Institute’s (RFI) public policy work and its nationwide and international initiatives in secondary and higher education, David Trimble now serves as RFI's President. Within that context, he brings a wealth of experience to the academy and civil society in international affairs, domestic and foreign policy, law, and higher education. 

Throughout his career, Trimble has focused on the intersection between religious freedom and policy. He is recognized in the U.S. and abroad for his international religious freedom advocacy on behalf of ethnic and religious minorities worldwide and for his acute knowledge of legislative process. Over the past decade, Trimble provided leadership in the drafting and passing of key genocide declarations and statutes shaping current U.S. policy on international religious freedom and the recovery and stabilization of ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East. He has also provided counsel to leaders in East Africa regarding democracy reforms and fundamental human rights protections.

Since 2021, Mr. Trimble has delivered keynote lectures on religious freedom in Europe and the Middle East, co-developed a religious freedom education plan for secondary schools in Poland and the Visagrád Four, provided training to senior parliamentary staff and legal counsel in Iraq, launched seminal training programs for college students in the U.S. and RFI’s first transatlantic advanced student seminar in the United Kingdom, and conducted religious freedom training for foreign pastors and priests on behalf of the U.S. Department of State.

Mr. Trimble holds a Juris Doctorate from Texas A&M University School of Law, Master of Divinity from Southwestern Seminary, and a Bachelor of Arts from Campbellsville University. In addition, Mr. Trimble has completed substantial post graduate studies at Southwestern and Baylor University.