Ted N.C. Wilson was elected as a general vice president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church world-wide in July 2000 during the General Conference Session in Toronto. His 35 years of church work includes serving as secretary, and prior to that as departmental director of the Africa-Indian Ocean Division in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (1981-1990), associate secretary of the General Conference (1990-1992), president of the Euro-Asia Division in Moscow, Russia (1992-1996), and president of the Review and Herald Publishing Association (1996-2000) in Hagerstown, Maryland USA. He is an ordained minister and served in the metropolitan New York area as a pastor in the Greater New York Conference from 1974-1976 and as assistant director and then director of Metropolitan Ministries (1976-1981). He holds a master of divinity degree from Andrews University, a master of science in public health degree from Loma Linda University School of Public Health, and a doctor of philosophy degree in religious education from New York University.

Pastor Wilson is married to Nancy Louise Vollmer Wilson, a physical therapist, and the couple has three daughters; Emilie Louise married to Pastor Kameron DeVasher, Elizabeth Esther married to Pastor David Wright, and Catherine Anne married to Dr Bob Renck.