Ryan K. Olsen

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 age 47. At the time of his call, he had been serving as an Area Authority and member of the Twelfth Quorum of the Seventy in the Utah Area.

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

Ryan Kirk Olsen was born in Provo, Utah, on October 11, 1974. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mass communication from the University of Utah in 1999. He worked as a business analyst for Best Consulting from 1999 to 2000. From 2000 to 2002, he owned a consulting company called Vision Source Consulting. He then worked as a sales consultant for Siebel Systems for about a year and then as a management consultant for Global Vision Group until 2004. 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.

He and his wife, Julie, are the parents of four children.