ESMT - Key Persons

Alfonso Gambardella

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Member of the Academic Board
Professor of Management and Head of the Department of Management and Technology, Università Bocconi

Amy C. Edmondson

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Member of the Academic Board
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School

Andreas Bernhardt

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Executive Development Advisor and Lead Coach

Andreas Bernhardt is executive development advisor and lead coach at ESMT Berlin in Germany, founding member of ESMT's Center for Leadership Development Research, and manages ESMT's pool of executive coaches. He has over 20 years of practical leadership development experience with executives from more than 50 countries and has designed and delivered executive programs for several international companies. He is also an executive coach with the Global Leadership Centre at INSEAD, one of the world's leading business schools. He is co-designer and convenor of ESMT's yearly Coaching Colloquium, was co-organizer of the International Coaching Research Forum in collaboration with the Institute of Coaching at McLean/Harvard Medical School, and regularly contributes to top academic and practitioner conferences. His current consulting and research interests focus on leadership development, executive coaching, HR management, and leading and coaching teams in tough times. He is co-editor of the new book "Tricky Coaching: Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching" together with Konstantin Korotov, Manfred Kets de Vries and Elizabeth Florent-Treacy. He teaches and coaches in the areas of Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Coaching, Negotiations and Change in MBA, Executive MBA, open enrollment, and company specific executive programs. His executive education portfolio includes, programs for, among others, Allianz, Deutsche Bank, Postbank, Hogan Lovells, Deutsche Telekom, E.ON, RWE, BSH Bosch and Siemens, Hitachi, Kaspersky, B. Braun, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, West Pharmaceutical Services, Johnson & Johnson, Axel Springer, McDonald's, and the European Union. Andreas consults globally operating companies on issues of executive coaching, leadership development, and leading people and teams in challenging times. He also regularly coaches executives on leadership and career issues. He studied Clinical and Organizational Psychology, Management and Organizational Behavior, holds a Master's degree in Psychology, and is an alumnus of INSEAD's long-term executive program "Consulting and Coaching for Change" directed by Professor Manfred Kets de Vries. Additionally, Andreas has held the position of Head of Leadership and Human Resource Management Programs for USW Schloss Gracht and prior to this worked for several years in the Banking Industry as well as for the German State Police Forces.

Arne Puls

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Chief Human Resources Officer and Labour Director, MAN Truck & Bus SE

Thomas Schmall-von Westerholt, Member of the Board of Management, Technology, and CEO of Volkswagen Group Components, Volkswagen AG

Beatrix Becker

be..@esmt.org

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Head of Business Development
Manager Business Development

Bianca Schmitz

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Lecturer and Program Director, Executive Programs

Bülent Gögdün

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Director, Executive Programs

Carolin Ludwig

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Member of the Advisory Committee
Deputy Director of Human Resources

Henry Sauermann, Professor of Strategy, ESMT Chair in Entrepreneurship, and Director of the Institute for Endowment Management and Entrepreneurial Finance (IFEE)

Carolin Puppel

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Program Director, Executive Programs

Carsten Kratz

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Managing Director, Bridgepoint GmbH

Carsten Spohr

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Member of the Additional
Member of the Executive Committee
Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Lufthansa AG

Christian Sewing

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Member of the Executive Committee
Vice Chairperson of the Executive Committee

Christoph Burger

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Senior Lecturer, ESMT Berlin ( on Leave )

David Knower

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Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH

Dr. Achim Kassow

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Member of the Board of Management, Munich Re

Dr. Anja Langenbucher

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Director, Europe Office, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Dr. Corinne Flick

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Founder and Chair, Convoco Foundation

Dr. Gerhard Cromme

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Chairman and CEO, P.a.C. Consulting

Dr. Joachim Faber

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Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Harald Quandt Holding

Dr. Johannes-Tobias Lorenz

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Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc

Dr. Julian Deutz

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Member of the Executive Board, Axel Springer SE

Dr. Markus Krebber

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Member of the Additional
Member of the Executive Committee
Chief Executive Officer, RWE AG

Dr. Michael Diederich

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Spokesman of the Management Board, HypoVereinsbank - UniCredit Bank AG

Dr. Patrick Adenauer

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Managing Partner, Bauwens GmbH & Co. KG

Dr. Roland Busch

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Member of the Additional
Member of the Executive Committee
President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens AG

Dr. Thomas Ogilvie

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Member of the Board - HR and Arbeitsdirektor, DHL Group

Edward A. Snyder

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Professor of Economics and Management, Yale School of Management

Francis de Véricourt

Francis de Véricourt is Professor of Management Science and the founding Academic Director of the Institute for Deep Tech Innovation (DEEP) at ESMT Berlin, which promotes translational science and technology innovations, including biotechnology, digital health and artificial intelligence. He also holds the Joachim Faber Chair in Business and Technology, and is the co-author of Framers, a Penguin Random House book listed on Financial Times' Best Books. He lived and worked in France, USA, Germany and Singapore. Francis was the first Associate Dean of Research and holder of the President's Chair at ESMT Berlin, where he also set up the Center for Decisions, Models, and Data. He held faculty positions at Duke University and INSEAD, where he was the Paul Dubrule Chaired professor in Sustainable Development, and was a post-doctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received a MS degree in applied mathematics and computer science at the Grenoble Institute of Technology as well as a PhD degree from Université Paris VI, France. His general research interest is in the area of decision science, analytics and operations, with applications in health care, sustainability and human-AI interaction. He is the author of numerous academic articles in prominent management, analytics and economics journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, American Economics Review and others. He received several outstanding research awards, including the ENRE and MSOM best publication awards of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He is currently a Department Editor at Operations Research and MSOM. Francis has been the recipient of many teaching awards for delivering classes to MBA and Executive MBA students at ESMT and INSEAD. He has extensive experience in executive education and corporate learning solutions, and is a regular speaker in academic and industry forums.

Frank Mattern

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Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company, Inc

Georg Garlichs - CFO, Managing Director

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Chief Financial Officer
Managing Director
Member of the Management Committee

Henry Sauermann

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Member of the Advisory Committee
Professor of Strategy

Hilde Rosenboom

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Program Director, Executive Programs

Jan U. Hagen

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Professor
Professor of Management Practice

Jan Hagen is a professor at ESMT and joined ESMT's faculty in 2005. Jan's interest in research is to understand how organizations deal with human errors as well as automation errors, how psychological safety can be established in teams, and how managerial practice can support a culture of learning in organizations. Apart from academic articles and books he published two books that focus on managing errors in organizations: Confronting Mistakes - Lessons from the Aviation Industry when Dealing with Error (Palgrave Macmillan) and How Could This Happen - Managing Errors in Organizations (Palgrave Macmillan). His research has received media coverage in outlets like the BBC, The Economist, Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Guardian, Forbes, Handelsblatt, Harvard Business Review, Manager Magazin, Spiegel Online, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and The Sunday Times. Jan's personal interest is in interacting with organizations to transfer academic knowledge to management. This particularly applies to his research with high-reliability organizations like the airlines and the military, which has implications for business leaders wanting to create agile, learning organizations. He is the program director for ESMT's Leadership under Pressure executive program and he taught specifically on error and crisis management in courses at Cass Business School, IDC Herzliya, Imperial College London, Saint Paul Business School, Seoul National University, Singapore Management University, and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. His executive education teaching portfolio includes programs for, among others, Allianz, Belgian Air Force, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, EnBW, E.ON, ERSTE Bank Group, European Investment Bank, European Parliament, German Federal Armed Forces, IBM, Lufthansa, Munich Re and Vienna Insurance Group. If time allows he also supports companies as a consultant with regard to error management. "Successful and lasting error management lives of new ideas and impulses. Jan Hagen's presentations were always full of inspiring ideas and outstanding scientific knowledge of the subject, significantly supporting my everyday effort to make military aviation safer."

Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck

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Managing Director, GOLDBECK GmbH

Jens Weinmann

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Program Director, Executive Programs

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Judith Wiese

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CHRO and Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG

Jürgen Hartwig

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Member of the Board of Management, Daimler Truck AG, Human Resources

Karl von Rohr

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Member of Management Board, Chief Administrative Officer, Deutsche Bank AG

Katja van Doren

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Member of the Executive Board, RWE AG

Klaus Becker

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CEO, KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Lei Lu

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Program Director, Executive Programs

Mandy Hübener

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Director, Executive Programs

Manju Puri

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Member of the Academic Board

Mansoor Ebrahim Al-Mahmoud

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Chief Executive Officer, Qatar Investment Authority

Marion Höllinger

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Spokeswoman of the Management Board ( CEO ), HypoVereinsbank - UniCredit Bank AG

Martin Gargiulo

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Member of the Academic Board
Professor of Entrepreneurship, INSEAD

Michael Diekmann

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Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Allianz SE

Michael J. Page

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Member of the Academic Board
Professor of Finance and Management, Bentley University

Molly Ihlbrock

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Director of Corporate Communications
Member of the Advisory Committee

Nan Guo

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Program Director, Executive Programs

Nora Grasselli

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Expert in Experiential Learning and Action Learning in Executive Education. Teaching Leadership Collaboration, and Organizational Behavior. Executive Coach
Program Director, Executive Programs

Nora studied management, with focus on organization. She completed her PhD on group dynamics at HEC School of Management and during her doctoral studies she was visiting fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at RMIT (Melbourne). She is a graduate of the Columbia Coaching Certification Program. Prior to joining ESMT Berlin, for the Boston Consulting Group, Nora was consulting to multinational corporations on organizational issues. She also worked as a lecturer for MBA and executive programs at multiple business schools including HEC Paris, Oxford Said, Reims School of Management, and the Central European University. As a program director at ESMT Nora pursues her interests in human collaboration: group dynamics, leadership, and organizational psychodynamics. In addition to her client work, teaching and research, Nora coaches executives and executive teams.

Ola Källenius

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Chairman of the Executive Committee

Olaf Plötner

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Professor of Management Practice, Director of the Bringing Technology to Market Center

Peter Klement

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Brigadier General, Director of Aviation Safety of the German Federal Armed Forces

"Jan's presentation was a top-notch experience that challenged conventional thinking and opened our minds to the advantages open error communication and the factual management of errors offer to organizations. We all walked away with a new sense of how thorough error analysis can increase a company's knowledge if we don't deny them or sweep them under the carpet."

Philipp P. Gross

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CEO Peter Gross Bau Holding GmbH

Philippe Oddo

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CEO and General Partner, ODDO BHF AG

Prof. Dr. Andreas Dombret

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Global Senior Advisor, Oliver Wyman GmbH, and Former Board Member, Deutsche Bundesbank AG ( 2010 - 2018 )

Prof. Dr. Harald Hungenberg

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Member of the Management Committee
Dean of Programs

Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci

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Professor of Organizational Behavior

Gianluca is a Professor of Organizational Behavior who joined ESMT Berlin in 2016. He is also the Director of Research and holder of the Ingrid and Manfred Gentz Chair in Business and Society. Previously he was an Associate Professor of Organization and Management at the University of Lugano and an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. He holds a PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Amsterdam.

Prof. Jörg Rocholl - Chairman, President

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Chairman
Member of the Management Committee
President
Research Professor at the Ifo Institute

Jörg Rocholl has been the president of ESMT since July 2011 and the Deutsche Bank professor in sustainable finance since September 2022. He is the chair of the advisory board to the German Federal Ministry of Finance. He is also the chair of the steering committee of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), a network of 32 leading business schools from around the globe. Rocholl is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Rocholl joined ESMT in July 2007 as an associate professor and became full professor in July 2010. In September 2010, he was appointed the associate dean of faculty and, in April 2011, dean of faculty. Rocholl holds a PhD in finance and economics and an MPhil from Columbia Business School as well as a "Diplom-Ökonom mit Auszeichnung" (economics degree with distinction) from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. As a researcher, Rocholl's interests are in sustainable finance, corporate finance, corporate governance, financial intermediation, and central banking. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. It has also been reported in leading international media such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt, and Börsen-Zeitung. He appears regularly as an expert on ARD, ZDF, Bloomberg TV, and Deutsche Welle. Rocholl is a research professor at the Ifo Institute in Munich, the vice chair of the economic advisory board of Deutsche Welle, a council member of the Virchow Foundation for Global Health, a member of the sustainability advisory council of Deutsche Post DHL Group, and a board member of the Public Governance Institute Germany. He worked with Boston Consulting Group in Frankfurt and London and Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and New York. He has been a visiting researcher at the Bundesbank Research Center in Frankfurt and was granted the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award as well as the Lamfalussy Fellowship and the Duisenberg Fellowship from the European Central Bank (ECB). Rocholl has received several research grants from Columbia Business School, Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the FDIC. His teaching has been recognized with the Weatherspoon Teaching Award at Kenan-Flagler Business School and several ESMT Best Teacher Awards.