Klaus Koschorke (Dr. theol. 1976, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg; habilitation 1991, University of Bern, Switzerland) is Professor Emeritus of the Chair for Early and Global History of Christianity at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, which he developed into a centre for the study of the History of Christianity in the Non-Western World (Asia, Africa, and Latin America); since 2013, he has been teaching and researching as guest professor in the UK (Liverpool), China (Beijing, Huangzhou), Japan (Tokyo), Korea (Seoul), South Africa (Pretoria), among other places.

Inspired by several guest lectureships and research stays in India and Sri Lanka, as the convenor of the international and interdisciplinary Munich-Freising conferences, and as the director or lead investigator of various research projects, he developed with his team the concept of a polycentric history of world Christianity. As a Senior Fellow of the POLY Research Group, he is currently working on a history of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (1450–2000) and a collection of essays on the polycentricity of world Christianity.