2016
Visiting Researcher at Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté d'Economie et de Gestion: Forschungstätigkeit

2015
Visiting Faculty at Portland State University, School of Business Administration: Lehrtätigkeit

since 04/2013

Institute for International Research on Sustainable Management and Renewable Energy: Director

since 03/2012

Nuertingen-Geislingen University: Professor for international management and renewable energy

since 05/2011

Independent management consultant

06/2007 – 04/2011

NAWARO BioEnergie AG (http://www.nawaro.ag/de/): Director, last position: CFO, board member

10/1998 - 05/2007

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (www.rolandberger.com), Munich and Tokyo: Senior Project Manager

10/1991 – 09/1993

Siemens AG, Transportation Systems Division, Braunschweig and Berlin (www.siemens.com): Commercial apprenticeship

Education

01/2005 – 09/2006

European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany: Doctoral program in business administration, Dr. rer. pol. (Ph.D.)

10/1993 – 09/1998

Mannheim University and Heidelberg University, Germany: Studies in business administration and Japanese studies, Diplom-Kaufmann (Master’s degree)

04/1997 – 03/1998

Hitotsubashi University, Japan, Graduate School of Commerce: Research Student

Appointments/Memberships in Professional Societies

• Deputy chairman of the sustainability advisory board of Barmenia Insurance Companies (http://www.barmenia.de/
• Member of the scientific advisory committee of B.A.U.M. (http://www.baum-ev.de/scripts/basics/eco-world/service/main/basics.prg)
• Member of the biogaspartner project at the German Energy Agency (http://www.biogaspartner.de/en/about.html)
• Member of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (http://vsjf.net/home-2/?lang=en)

Reviewer for Scientific Journals

• Energy Policy
• Energy, Sustainability and Society
• Sustainability
• Journal of Cleaner Production
• GAIA

Reviewer/Expert funding organizations

• Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V.

Module: Intercultural Management (4 SWS; only in summer term)

Module: Strategic Management in an International Context (4 SWS, only in summer term)

• Introduction into International Management (2 SWS)

• Case study seminar: International Market Entry Strategies (2 SWS)

Module: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (" SWS)

Module: Marketing & Sustainability (4 SWS)

Seminar: Methodische Grundlagen II (Academic Writing, 2 SWS)

Vorlesung: Erneuerbare Energien - ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Aspekte (4 SWS)