Fr. Andrew Downing, S.J. serves as the Director of Ignatian Programs in the Office of Mission and Ministry, a role that seeks to promote the practice of Ignatian spirituality across the university community. Prior to coming to Georgetown in 2024, he was committed to similar work at Saint Peter’s University, where he was the Vice President for Mission and Ministry, and at the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Jesuit university in Rome, where he taught in the theology faculty. Fr. Downing holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. In his formation as a Jesuit, he earned a master’s degree in Philosophical Resources from Fordham University, as well as an M.Div. and S.T.L. from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Before entering the Society of Jesus in 1995, he graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Religious Studies. Ordained the priesthood in 2007, he is a member of the USA East Province of the Jesuits.