Director, International Institute for Religious Freedom, Bonn, Germany and Distinguished Professor of International Development, Meghalaya, India
Prof. Thomas Schirrmacher is the director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (Bonn, Cape Town, Colombo), a professor of the sociology of religion at the State University of the West in Timisoara, Romania, and distinguished professor of global ethics and international development at William Carey University in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. He is also a human rights ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance, representing approximately 600 million Christians. He is a member of the board of the International Society for Human Rights. His newest publications include books on fundamentalism, racism and human trafficking.