Venerable Dr. Khammai Dhammasami is a Theravada Buddhist monk-scholar from Oxford, Great Britain. He is now involved in teaching and research in Buddhist Studies at University of Oxford where he received his doctor of philosophy in Buddhist Studies. From 2009, he starts teaching some tutorials and giving weekly lectures. He also teaches Pali and meditation at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where he is a research associate. Outside Britain, he holds professorship at International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University, Yangon, Myanmar and is Distinguished Professor at the Postgraduate Institute for Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. He is also a visiting lecturer in Indonesia, India and Thailand.

Apart from his university teaching, he offers Buddhist teaching and vipassana meditation regularly to the public since 1993 in Sri Lanka, Britain, Canada, USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Korea, Hungary, Spain and Thailand. He has set up two temples, one in Oxford and the other in Singapore. He also helps develop a temple set up by the famous forest meditation master, the Venerable Phra Khruva Boonchum Nyanasamvaro in Buddhagaya, India.

Since 2005, at the invitation of the Most Ven. Professor Dr.PhraDharmakosajarn, Rector of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, he has also been very active in international Buddhist organisations. He has severed as assistant secretary, general secretary and vice chairman of the International Council for the United Nations Day of Vesak. He has been the main thinker and coordinator of the two Buddhist universities groupings: the International Association of Buddhist Universities (IABU) and the Association of Theravada Buddhist Universities (ATBU). He serves as the Executive Secretary in both associations.

Born into a Tai-yai (Shan) family in Shan State, the union of Myanmar, he has learned from and has close connection with the senior members of the Sangha in Shan State, Mon State and other parts of the country in the Union of Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand.