Clemens Sedmak is King's College London as FD Maurice Professor for Moral Theology and
Social Theology. Born in Austria in 1971, Prof. Sedmak has undertaken studies in philosophy,
theology, social theory and development theory at the University of Innsbruck, the ETH Zurich,
at Maryknoll (New York) and the University of Linz. After having completed doctorates in
philosophy, theology and social theory, Clemens Sedmak spent two years at Chicago as a
research fellow and took up a Chair for Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion at the
University of Salzburg in 2001, a position he held till 2005 when he came to King's College.
Clemens Sedmak has been visiting professor at the Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi, at the
Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana), at the
Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Clemens Sedmak is married with three children.