Since March 2021, Marcel Schepp is Advisor for International Party Dialogue in the department Democracy, Law and Political Parties. Previously, he was a Desk Officer for the Evaluation Unit since 2016 and Research Officer for KAS in India from 2011 to 2016, including two and a half years for the Regional Programme SAARC and another two years for the Country Office India. After studying political science and sociology at the University of Trier, Marcel Schepp started working for the Foundation as an intern for the department Asia and the Pacific in 2011.