Kochukunju Joy, M.A. (Osmania University, Hyderabad, India)

Qualified French Interpreter (School of Foreign Languages, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi)

Served the Army during (1) the liberation of Goa (1961), (2) the great Chinese betrayal of invading an unprepared India on two fronts: In the west in Ladakh and in the east across the McMahon Line in the then North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) on 20 October 1962, thus inflicting devastating humiliation on the psyche of India; served in Operational Areas during (3) the Indo-Pak War (1965), and (4) liberation of Bangladesh (1971)

Office Manager, Environmental Law Centre of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN - The World Conservation Union), Bonn (May 1978 - September 1998); Assistant to the President and CEO, Maschinenbau Halberstadt in the State of Saxon-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) (1998 -1999); Assistant to Ambassador, Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in Bonn (1999); Hospitant at the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Adademischer Austausch Dienst – DAAD) (May - August 2001); finally worked at the Internal Audit of the Church Development Service (Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst - EED) (October 2002 - December 2008)