Kai Funkschmidt grew up in Bonn and Paris. He read divinity at Göttingen, St Andrews (Scotland) and Hamburg universities as well as Indology at Bonn university. 1994 Junior Lecturer in Ecumenics, Missiology and Religious Studies at Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal 1998 Executive Secretary for the development aid agency Kindernothilfe Duisburg 1999 Doctoral dissertation on the concept of partnership in inter-church relationships between Europe and the Third World 2000 Ordination in the Protestant Church of the Rhineland 2000 Mission Relations Secretary at Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (formerly known as the British Council of Churches), London and Dunblane 2007 Secretary for Ecumenical Learning and New Religious Movements of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (Frankfurt) Since 2011 Academic Advisor (research fellow) of EZW, Berlin