Kai Gehring

Kai Gehring (born 26 December 1977) is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a Member of the German Parliament since 2005.

For the footballer, see Kai Gehring (footballer).
Kai Gehring
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2005
Personal details
Born (1977-12-26) 26 December 1977
Mülheim an der Ruhr, Northrhine-Westphalia
NationalityGerman
Political partyAlliance '90/The Greens
Alma materRuhr University Bochum
ProfessionSociologist
Websitewww.kai-gehring.de

Early life and education

After receiving his Abitur in Velbert, Gehring majored in social sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum, earning his Diplom in 2003.

Political career

Having joined the liberal party Alliance '90/The Greens in 1998, Gehring was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 federal election. He was able to retain his seat in the 2009 election.

Since joining the parliament, Gehring has been serving on the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. In 2011, he became his parliamentary group’s spokesperson for research and universities.

In addition to his committee assignments, Gehring has served as deputy chairman of the German-Greek Parliamentary Friendship Group (2013-2017); the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East (since 2018), which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations with Bahrain, Irak, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian territories; and the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Central African States (since 2018).

Other activities
gollark: I'm working in Rust, which is very fast, and using performance-optimized libraries, but that doesn't mean that if I make stupid design decisions it'll run fast.
gollark: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
gollark: DokuWiki is somewhat slow and patches over it with ugly caching stuff.
gollark: Well, I want it to scale well to large note volumes.
gollark: So yes, I'm not sure how to make this work elegantly *and* efficiently.

References
  1. Board of Trustees Aktion Deutschland Hilft.
  2. Board of Trustees German National Association for Student Affairs.
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