Christophe G. Giraud-Carrier
Christophe G. Giraud-Carrier was sustained as a General Authority Seventy on April 1, 2023, at the 193rd Annual General Conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
At the time of this call, he was serving as stake president of a young single adult stake in Provo, Utah. His previous Church assignments include as a full-time missionary in the Canada Montreal Mission, bishop, high councilor, and president of the France Lyon Mission (2018–2021). He is a native of Lyon, France.
Giraud-Carrier was born on January 21, 1966. He has been a computer science professor at Brigham Young University for the past 19 years. He earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees in computer science from BYU, then worked as a senior lecturer for England’s University of Bristol and a senior manager for Switzerland’s ELCA Informatique.
Elder Giraud-Carrier and his wife, Isabelle, have eight children. Reflecting upon the unplanned direction their lives have taken, he said, “The mere fact that very few things have happened in the way that we planned from the get-go allowed us both to realize that if we let the Lord do His thing and take us places, then that’s where He wants us to be and that’s where we can serve. It has helped us to learn to trust Him, to trust that He can make of our lives more than we otherwise could."[1]
