Larry Y. Wilson

Larry Young Wilson (born December 31, 1949) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2011.
Wilson has a bachelors degree in English and American literature from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Wilson has served as an administrative officer of several health care systems, most recently as senior vice president for financial and strategic planning of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.
As a young man, Wilson served as a missionary for the LDS Church in Brazil. He has also been a bishop, stake president, chairman of the Oakland Family History Center, and area seventy. He became a general authority and member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy in April 2011. For the first year after his call, he fulfilled assignments at church headquarters. In August 2012, he began serving as first counselor in the Church's Asia Area. In August 2014, he will complete his service in the area presidency and be reassigned to church headquarters.
Wilson married Lynda Mackey Wilson in 1974 and they are the parents of four children.

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