One of the most attractive features of the Bucerius Master of Law and Business – in cooperation with WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management – is the diverse faculty that includes renowned academics, as well as professors from the practising legal and business communities from both Germany and abroad.
Dean of the Bucerius Master of Law and Business (LLM/MLB) Program
Lectures in:
Module 1: Foundations of Law and Business
Module 5/6: Electives
Module 9: Social Responsibility of an Enterprise
Christopher Bisping joined Bucerius Law School after 18 years in the United Kingdom, where he researched and taught at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick. His main areas of interest are contract and commercial law, comparative law and conflict of laws. He has lectured widely in Europe and beyond and has expertise in explaining common law concepts to law students in civil law countries and vice versa. At Warwick, Christopher was program director for the Law and Business Studies degree, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Law and Academic Director Postgraduate Taught, overseeing the University’s portfolio of Masters degrees. He is a champion of student and staff mobility, both physical and virtual, and has lectured as part of a staff exchange in Malaysia. Christopher is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. He has received his legal education in Germany (First State Exam University of Bonn, Second State Exam Hamburg) and Scotland (LLM University of Edinburgh. Have a look at our portrait "5 minutes with Professor Bisping" here.
Program Director Business
Lectures in:
Orientation Program
Module 5/6: Electives
Christina Günther is Professor of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and Co-Director of WHU’s Institute of Family Business and Mittelstand.
Professor Dr. Christina Günther studied international economics at the Universiteit Maastricht before she joined the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena as a research fellow. She completed her doctorate at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena in 2009.
From 2010 to 2014 Christina Günther worked as Assistant Professor for “Industrial Organization and Economics of Innovation” at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Since April 2014, she holds the IHK-Chair for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and has carried out several research visits abroad. She is the Editor-Chief at Small Business Economics and Editor at Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, two leading international journals, and received numerous awards for her research. She serves as a member of the Executive Board of the Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division. Over the last years she gained broad experience in executive education and works as a consultant.
In her current research projects, she investigates amongst others the relationship between entrepreneurship and health, family businesses and democracy as well as leadership in small and medium-sized enterprises.
Recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award in 2021 for the course Social Entrepreneurship.
Program Director Law
Prof. Dr. Carsten Jungmann is Program Director at Bucerius Law School. Inter alia, he coordinates the Diploma in Business Law Program at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. In addition, he is a practicing lawyer, formerly as a Managing Partner of the law firm DUVINAGE (Munich), today in his capacity as Vice President Corporate Law, Governance & Structure of BIRKENSTOCK Group (Linz am Rhein). Within the BIRKENSTOCK Group, he also serves as the chairman of the supervisory board.
His primary fields of research are insolvency and restructuring law, corporate law (including corporate governance), banking law and corporate finance. Prof. Dr. Jungmann studied law at the University of Bonn and at the University of Edinburgh. At the University of Bonn, he worked at the Institute for Commercial and Business Law and graduated as a Doctor of Laws. Whilst a trainee solicitor, he worked inter alia with the international law firm Hogan Lovells and with HSH Nordbank (today: Hamburg Commercial Bank); he also clerked for High Court Chief Judge Dr. Buechel. After passing the bar exam at the High Court of Hamburg, he went to the US and obtained an LL.M. from Yale Law School. In addition, Prof. Dr. Jungmann holds a Master of Science in Finance after studies at the University of Leicester (UK). He spent a year as an academic visitor at the London School of Economics and is/was a lecturer/visiting professor at several national and international universities (including, inter alia, the University of Surrey, the University of Fribourg, the University of Liechtenstein, the University of Luxemburg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich). Prof. Dr. Jungmann has published numerous articles on corporate, banking and insolvency/restructuring law in leading law journals. In 2011, he was awarded the Bucerius Alumni Prize for Outstanding Teaching.
Recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award in 2009 and 2015 for the course Legal Aspects of Corporate Governance and in 2010 and 2011 for the course Business Entities (together with Prof. Dr. Karsten Schmidt).
Katrin Baedorf is Director of the Dean’s Office at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management since 2018 and responsible for WHU’s strategic development. She studied Economics and Mathematics at the “Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität” in Bonn. Upon graduating with two diploma degrees in 2001, she joined McKinsey & Company, Inc., where she stayed for more than four years. In 2006 she joined the Center of Private Banking at WHU, where she completed her dissertation about the topic “Performance Measurement of Customer Portfolios in Private Banking”. Between 2009 and 2011 she was assistant professor at the Center of Private Banking. In her research she focused on asset management with particular interest in illiquid assets and behavioral finance as well as service quality within private banking. After her maternity leave, she became Director at the Center of Asset and Wealth Management in 2014 and was responsible for all activities and relationships. She took over her current role as Director of WHU’s Dean’s office in May 2018 and was awarded the title "Außerplanmäßige Professorin" in September 2021.
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Jernej holds a law degree from the University of Ljubljana and graduated from the Bucerius MLB program in 2013. He further honed his expertise by completing an MBA at the University of St. Gallen in 2021.
Jernej embarked on his professional journey at Wieland Capital, a private equity fund based in Munich. Subsequently, he made a strategic move to the investment holding of the Birkenstock family, where he served as the head of finance. Currently, Jernej works in the field of mergers and acquisitions at Ernst & Young.
Beyond his corporate achievements, Jernej co-authored a book on global development strategies and founded "The Legal Solution," a successful corporate law competition at the University of Ljubljana tailored for senior law students.
Lecturer Business
Prof. Dr. Dries Faems holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Transformation at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He also is a Visiting Professor at the LUISS University in Rome. Before joining the WHU, he was Assistant Professor (2007-2009) and Associate Professor (2009-2011) at the University of Twente and Full Professor of Innovation & Organization at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Groningen (2011-2018). He holds a master’s degree in Commercial Engineering (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2001, magna cum laude) and became a Doctor in Applied Economics (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, June 2006) with a thesis titled: “Collaboration for Innovation: Processes of Governance and Learning in R&D Alliances.” His current research focuses on collaboration for innovation. In particular, he studies how alliance activities influence firms’ innovation and financial performance and how firms can effectively manage different types of open innovation strategies.
Michael Friedman received a B.A. in economics (magna cum laude) from the University of Southern California and subsequently studied law at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Juris Doctor in 1993 and became a member of the California State Bar in 1994. Mr. Friedman practiced law as a senior attorney and litigator in the San Francisco Bay area with the Contra Costa County Office of the Public Defender. In addition to having served as an external lecturer at Bucerius Law School since 2006, he has conducted courses and workshops on negotiation at the law faculties of the Universities of Graz and Innsbruck, at the GISMA Business School in Hannover, and for the German-American Lawyer’s Association (DAJV) as well as the African Good Governance Network. He has lived in Hamburg since 2004 where he works as legal editor with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.
Previous recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award for the course Negotiation.
Rolf Uwe Fülbier is full professor of international accounting at the University of Bayreuth. Before, he was full professor at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (2005-2008), assistant professor at the University of Bochum (1999-2004) and Ph.D student at the University of Münster (1994-1998). He studied business administration at the University of Cologne, financed by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), and worked several years for Deutsche Bank AG in Germany and Indonesia (Jakarta branch). Since 2005 Rolf Uwe Fülbier has been an appointed tax consultant (Steuerberater).
His field of research covers all aspects of financial accounting and reporting, especially international accounting (IFRS). Rolf Uwe Fülbier is author of a huge variety of books, book sections and articles in national and international refereed as well as professional journals. He is editorial board member of “Accounting in Europe” (Taylor & Francis), the European publication outlet for policy oriented accounting research, of “Journal of Business Economics” (Springer) and of “Accounting, Economics and Law – A Convivium” (de Gruyter). Moreover, he was visiting scholar/professor at TU Sofia, University of Oxford/UK, Victoria University of Wellington/NZ, Macquarie University Sydney/AUS and Shanghai International Studies University/CHN. He has been involved in several graduate and executive programs of leading German and European Universities and he is member of the German CPA-examination board. From 2020 to 2022 he was also chairman of the scientific commission ‘Accounting’ of all German-speaking accounting professors of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB). Currently he is working in the VHB and for the Chamber of Auditors (Wirtschaftsprüferkammer) on the further development of the German professional CPA examination. He has been honored with several best teaching (WHU, University of Bayreuth), research and other awards. His textbook “International Accounting”, coauthored with Pellens (Bochum), Gassen (Berlin) and Sellhorn (Munich), received 2018 the VHB-Monograph Prize.
Lecturer Business
Lectures in:
Orientation Program
Module 5/6: Electives
Module 9: Social Responsibility of an Enterprise
Nicole Gottschalck is Assistant Professor for Personnel Economics at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and holds the Joachim-Herz endowed Assistant Professorship for Business at the Bucerius Law School. A social scientist by trade, she studied at the University of Gießen (Germany), the University of Bristol (UK), the Institut Européen (France), the Bilgi University (Turkey), and the University of Leipzig (Germany). In her research, she is particularly interested in employees and personnel management with a focus on contextual factors that impact the work attitudes of individuals and the performance of organizations. Therein, she also addresses questions of growth pains of firms and challenges to the middle managerial level in handling social dynamics as organizations change and grow. In addition, Nicole has worked on leadership, sustainable business transformations, social cohesion, and family businesses.
Lecturer Law
Dirk is an alumnus of Bucerius Law School (Class of 2013). From 2015 to 2017, he was Chief of Staff at Bucerius Law School and oversaw, inter alia, all of its Legal Technology projects. From 2017 to 2020, he was Executive Director Legal Technology and led the corresponding department at Bucerius Law School. When this department was made into a research center in 2020, he became Executive Director of the Center for Legal Technology and Data Science. Dirk is a Fellow at CodeX – the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics at Stanford Law School.
His normative scholarship focuses on Legal Technology in the areas of professional law as well as comparative law and procedural law. His other research interests include quantitative and computational legal studies, legal informatics, data science and natural language processing in the legal domain with a focus on legal complexity.
Daniel Martin Katz is a scientist, technologist and professor who applies an innovative polytechnic approach to teaching law – to help create lawyers for today's biggest societal challenges. Both his scholarship and teaching integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Professor Katz is a Professor of Law at the Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent College of Law where he directs The Law Lab. In addition, Professor Katz is an external affiliated faculty at CodeX—The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and the Academic Director of the Center for Legal Technology and Data Science at Bucerius Law School. Professor Katz is the Co-Founder of LexPredict (a legal technology company which was acquired by Elevate in November 2018).
Professor Katz received his Ph.D. in political science and public policy with a focus on complex adaptive systems from the University of Michigan. He also graduated with a Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.
Jörn Axel Kämmerer has been a Professor (chair holder) at Bucerius Law School since 2000. He was a Guest Professor at Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) from 2005 to 2007 (part-time) and at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, in 2007 and 2017. He studied law at Tübingen University, Germany, and Université d’Aix-en-Provence/Marseille III, France. Appointed Doctor of law in 1993 with a thesis on the Antarctic System after the Madrid Protocol, he received his “venia legendi” (Habilitation) in Public Law, European Law and Public International Law in 2000 by Tübingen Law Faculty. His research focuses, inter alia, on market regulation, privatization as well as law and finance in both German public law and EU law. A Director of the Institute on Company and Capital Markets Law (ICCML/IUKR) at Bucerius, he has been a member of an advisory committee to the German Ministry of Finance on financial markets regulation since 2011. He is the author of a textbook on Constitutional Law and has made contributions to renowned legal commentaries. With two colleagues he conducted an interdisciplinary research project on colonialism and the evolution of Public International Law (with financial assistance by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). In 2016 he was elected Secretary-General and in 2022 President of the Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE). Jörn Axel Kämmerer teaches mostly in German and English and has given lectures or lecture series at academic institutions of various countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa.
Dr. Nils Krause is a partner at the international law firm DLA Piper and works as a German qualified lawyer and solicitor (England / Wales) in the Hamburg office of DLA Piper. He was heading the Corporate / M&A practice of the firm in Germany for many years and is now International Co-Head of Corporate Legal Products and Innovation for the global Corporate / M&A group. His principal areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions and corporate law. Prior to working for DLA Piper, Nils Krause was a partner at White & Case and, in addition, worked in the investment banking department (Global Banking - M&A) of a leading international bank in Frankfurt. Furthermore, he was a research student at Harvard Law School and visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. He lectures on corporate law at nationally and internationally renowned universities and is recognized by Legal 500 as "often recommended lawyer for corporate law" in Germany. In addition, Chambers Global recognizes him as "top transactional lawyer" for international M&A projects.
Lecturer Law
Lectures in:
Orientation Program
Module 4: Internationalization of an Enterprise
Module 5/6: Electives
Stefan Kröll is Professor of International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law School and visiting professor at the School of International Arbitration, CCLS – Queen Mary College, London. He is one of the directors of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court and the Chairman of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS). He regularly lectures for other universities in Germany and abroad and is member of the editorial or academic advisory board of several national and international journals. Professor Kröll is one of Germany’s national correspondents to UNCITRAL for arbitration and international commercial law and is regularly listed as one of the leading German Arbitration specialists and most in demand arbitrators. Educated at the Universities in Marburg, Geneva and Cologne, he holds a doctorate from the University of Cologne and a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics. Professor Kröll is the (co)author and (co)editor of a number of books and articles on international arbitration and litigation, and international commercial law.
Recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award in 2008, together with Professor Larsen, for the course International Litigation II, in 2013 for the course International Sale of Goods and in 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2023 for the course Arbitration.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Kumpan, LL.M. (Univ. of Chicago), Attorney at law (New York) holds the Chair of Civil Law, Corporate Law and Capital Market Law at Bucerius Law School sponsored by the Dr. Harald Hack Foundation. He is the executive director of the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law, director of the Notary Law Center for Family Companies, director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Energy, Climate and Sustainability and project leader of the Network for Artificial Intelligence and Law. His research focuses on corporation and capital markets law, fiduciary law and market organization law including a comparative perspective with an emphasis on the U.S. and England and economic analysis of the law.
Before joining Bucerius Law School, Christoph Kumpan held the chair for Private Law, Company and Business Law, Comparative Law and Conflicts of Laws and was a director of the Institute for Economic Law at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg. Prior to these appointments, he worked as a guest professor at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin and as an acting professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Christoph Kumpan has worked as a research associate and senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. He spent two terms as a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, was a member of the working group of the Commission of Stock Exchange Experts under the Federal Ministry of Finance, an advisory counsel to the Federal Ministry of Finance regarding prospectus liability, and a short-term-expert of the EU for takeover law harmonisation in Turkey. Now he is a member of the working group “Finanzmarktgesetzgebung beim Bundesministerium der Finanzen“ and of the New York bar.
Christoph Kumpan studied at the Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Heidelberg and The University of Chicago (LL.M.) and received his doctorate (on the regulation of alternative trading systems) and his Habilitation (on the law governing conflicts of interest) from the University of Hamburg. He received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and the ZEIT Foundation, the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the Academic Award 2005 (1st Place) of the Deutsches Aktieninstitut and a scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Estefano Martinez is an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a leading global law firm for technology and life sciences companies. At WSGR, Estefano’s practice is focused on advising companies and investors on venture capital financings and general corporate matters. He is a member of the firm’s Latin America practice group and frequently advises on cross-border transactions.
Estefano received a B.S. in business management, magna cum laude, from Millikin University and a Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He graduated from the MLB program in 2021.
Estefano is based in Silicon Valley and is admitted to practice law in the State of California.
Andreas E. Meier is the Head of Northern Europe at Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL), we he heads a team of wealth management specialists, advising European entrepreneurs and Family Offices.
He formerly worked as Chief Investment Officer of Lombard Assurance International S.A., Luxembourg, a global leader in insurance-based wealth structuring solutions, owned by The Blackstone Group L.P.
Before that he worked for 15 years at UBS Group where among other functions, he was a member of the Executive Board at UBS Germany between 2009 and 2016. He started his career at former Dresdner Bank Latin America in 1992.
He is a board member of the Latin American Business Association, Hamburg. He holds a degree (Lic. rer. pol.) in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg, with a special focus in Banking, Finance and Portfolio Management.
Lecturer Business
Matthias Meyer is full professor for management control and accounting at the Hamburg University of Technology. Before that he was an associate and assistant professor for management accounting at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar. He holds a habilitation degree (Dr. oec. publ. habil.) from WHU and a PhD (Dr. oec. publ.) in business economics from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where he worked at the Chair of Philosophy and Economics. The topic of his dissertation was the principal agent model. He received his Diplom-Kaufmann in business administration from Eichstaett Catholic University and a master of science in the philosophy of social sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2006, Matthias Meyer stayed as visiting scholar at the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. His practical background in management accounting is his former position as the Managing Director of the Center for Controlling & Management at WHU where companies like DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Telekom or Deutsche Lufthansa work together with researchers on management accounting topics. He has teaching experience in management accounting, cost accounting, corporate planning and strategic decision-making, economic methodology and business ethics.
Lecturer Law
Lectures in:
Module 9: Social Responsibility of an Enterprise
Mehrdad Payandeh is Professor of International Law, European Law and Public Law at Bucerius Law School. He studied law at Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf where he also finished his doctoral thesis in international law. After a legal clerkship that took him to the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York, Hengeler Mueller, as well as the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany he obtained an LL.M. at Yale Law School. He returned to Heinrich-Heine-University as a research assistant and from 2012 until 2016 he worked there as a Junior Professor for International Law and Public Law. In 2016, he finished his habilitation with a thesis in constitutional law, before joining Bucerius Law School. Since 2020, Professor Payandeh is a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. His research focuses on international law, in particular human rights law and the law of the use of force, anti-discrimination law, as well as constitutional law and theory.
Lecturer Business
Jannick Plähn is a finance professional who works in the Controlling department of Otto Payments GmbH. He earned his Master's degree in Banking and Finance from Steinbeis University Berlin and is expected to complete his Ph.D. at the Hamburg University of Technology in 2023. In his doctoral thesis, he uses experimental methods to investigate the influence of social norms in participative budgeting. Prior to his role at Otto Payments GmbH, he worked as a Finance & Risk Consultant at zeb.rolfes.schierenbeck.associates in 2018 and as a Credit Manager at VR Bank Flensburg-Schleswig eG from 2015 to 2017. He initiated his professional journey with a bank apprenticeship at VR Bank Flensburg-Schleswig eG from 2012 to 2015.
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Lecturer Business
Lectures in:
Module 4: Internationalization of an Enterprise
Natalia Ribberink is professor of International Business at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Business & Social Sciences.
In addition to her professorship at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Natalia Ribberink holds visiting professor positions at the University of Rhode Island (USA), California State University Long Beach (USA), and has a position of external faculty member at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands). She regularly holds lectures for partner universities abroad, acts as a reviewer for some international academic journals, and has several publications in the field of international business.
Before being appointed as a Professor Natalia Ribberink spent five years in the German aviation industry within a large airline alliance. She managed international projects in the area of strategic partnerships and was responsible for fare policies, contract management, accreditation procedures and staff recruiting & development. She combined this function with her Ph.D.-studies. Prior to that she worked as a Research Associate at the Faculty of Business & Social Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrueck.
Natalia Ribberink graduated with honors from the Belarusian State University in Minsk with a degree in the World Economy/International Economic Relations. As a winner of DAAD Award for Excellence she continued her education and research in Osnabrueck, Germany, where she obtained her second university degree in European Business Studies (Dipl.-Kffr.) and a Ph.D. in Economics.
Recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award in 2015 for the course International Strategic Management.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Rönnau holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Business Law and Law of Criminal Procedure at Bucerius Law School. Born in 1962, Thomas Rönnau passed his First State Examination in 1987 and received his doctorate in 1990 in Kiel on the subject of "Plea Bargaining in Criminal Proceedings". After passing the Second State Examination in 1992 and working as a fully qualified lawyer in the legal department of a major North German company, he returned to the University of Kiel as a Research Assistant in 1994 and habilitated there in mid-1999 with a thesis on "Vices of Consent in Criminal Law". Since 2000, Prof. Rönnau has held the Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Business Law and Law of Criminal Procedure at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. During this time, he declined calls to the University of Göttingen (2005) and Münster (2006).
Prof. Rönnau's research focuses on Criminal Law in general (Doctrine of Wrongdoing and Guilt [here especially Dogmatics of Consent and Self-Defense]) and on Economic Criminal Law. In monographs, commentaries, academic essays and lectures he deals with the subjects of embezzlement and fraud, the Criminal Law of Limited Liability Companies, Corruption and the Law of Asset Confiscation as well as with Criminal Insolvency Law or Offences or Administrative Offences from the UmwG or the WpÜG. For many years, Prof. Rönnau has also been active in this area as an advisor for lawmakers and companies. He also regularly offers executive education courses for corporate lawyers and attorneys.
Markus Rudolf has been Full Professor and Chair of Finance at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management since 1998. He is also Head of the WHU Center of Asset and Wealth Management. He served as WHU's Rector from January 2015 to 2023, and as Deputy Rector from 2009 to 2014. Previously, he received his doctorate and habilitation from the University of St. Gallen. His recent publications focus on blockchains, banking economics, and asset and risk management. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal "Financial Markets and Portfolio Management" and academic director of the Campus for Finance - WHU New Year's Conference. He also holds a position as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Böker & Paul AG and was a member of the Supervisory Board at Intervivos AG and at Black Rock Asset Management Deutschland AG between June 2008 and March 2016.
Lecturer Business
Lectures in:
Module 4: Internationalization of an Enterprise
Barbara Stage is Assistant Professor for Financial Accounting and Business Taxation at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. She studied Business Administration with focus on Taxation at University of Mannheim (Germany) and Philosophy & Economics at University of Bayreuth (Germany). She completed her PhD on ‘The Effects of International Mobility, Digitalization and Tax Transparency Initiatives on Taxation of Businesses and Individuals’ at the University of Mannheim (Germany) (summa cum laude). In her research, she is particularly interested in how taxes interact with decisions of businesses and individuals, including research on the effects of tax regimes on tax evasion, tax avoidance and investment behavior. She enjoys regularly exchanging ideas at international conferences in the U.S. and in different European countries and has published her interdisciplinary work in the Journal of Public Economics (Economics) and the World Tax Journal (Law).
Lecturer Law
Professor Dr. Karsten Thorn holds the Chair for Civil Law, Private International and International Commercial Law, and Comparative Law at Bucerius Law School. He is co-director of the Center on International Dispute Resolution. From June 2014 through September 2015, he was also acting Dean.
Professor Thorn teaches and researches in different fields of Private International Law, International Commercial Law, and Comparative Law.
From 2005 through 2009 he was the German director of the program of the Summer Law Institute in Souzhou, China, and since 2007, lecturer within a cooperation framework of Chinese legal training, e.g. the China European International Business School, Shanghai, or the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, as well as the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Berlin. In 2010, he was "Director of Studies in the Session of Private International Law for the Diploma Seminars 2010" of The Hague Academy of International Law; in the summer of 2016 he taught there a course on “The Protection of Weaker Business Parties in Private International Law”.
Prof. Thorn is among other academic or professional associations regional head of the German-American Lawyers Association, council member of the German Association for International Law and member of the German Council of International Private Law. He is author and editor of numerous publications, particularly of a commentary on International Private Law within the main commentary „Palandt“. He is co-publisher of “IPRax”, one of the most distinguished German law journals on conflict of laws.
Recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award in 2021 for the course Legal Issues of Supply and Distribution (Chains).
Professor Wagner holds the Chair of Logistics Management and is Faculty Director of the HumOSCM Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). From 2008 to 2019 he was Director of the Executive MBA in Supply Chain Management (MBA ETH SCM). He worked in practice for almost 10 years prior to his academic career, namely as head of supply chain management for a Swiss-based technology group and as senior manager for an international top-management consulting firm. He obtained a MBA from Washington State University and a Ph.D. and Habilitation degree from the University of St. Gallen.
He has been a lecturer for supply chain management and related areas on the undergraduate, graduate and executive level at several universities. He has been recognized for his teaching with the MBA Program Best Teacher Award at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (2006) and the “Golden Owl” Teaching Award at the ETH Zurich (2009 and 2013). In addition, he has consulted with and conducted executive training programs for leading companies and business associations.
He is an active researcher and has received numerous research awards. His research interests lie in the areas of supply chain management, purchasing and supply management, and logistics and transportation management - with a particular emphasis on strategy, networks and relationships, risk, innovation, digitalization, entrepreneurship, sustainability and humanitarian operations. He is author and editor of 13 books and over 150 book chapters and articles. He has published in journals such as Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, or California Management Review.
Recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023 for the course Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
Lecturer Business
Professor Wagner holds the Chair of Logistics Management and is Faculty Director of the HumOSCM Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). From 2008 to 2019 he was Director of the Executive MBA in Supply Chain Management (MBA ETH SCM). He worked in practice for almost 10 years prior to his academic career, namely as head of supply chain management for a Swiss-based technology group and as senior manager for an international top-management consulting firm. He obtained a MBA from Washington State University and a Ph.D. and Habilitation degree from the University of St. Gallen.
He has been a lecturer for supply chain management and related areas on the undergraduate, graduate and executive level at several universities. He has been recognized for his teaching with the MBA Program Best Teacher Award at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (2006) and the “Golden Owl” Teaching Award at the ETH Zurich (2009 and 2013). In addition, he has consulted with and conducted executive training programs for leading companies and business associations.
He is an active researcher and has received numerous research awards. His research interests lie in the areas of supply chain management, purchasing and supply management, and logistics and transportation management - with a particular emphasis on strategy, networks and relationships, risk, innovation, digitalization, entrepreneurship, sustainability and humanitarian operations. He is author and editor of 13 books and over 150 book chapters and articles. He has published in journals such as Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, or California Management Review.
Recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award in 2020 for the course Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management.
