Prof. Dr. Claus-Heinrich Daub - Head Centre of Sustainable Management

Claus-Heinrich Daub studied Sociology, Philosophy, Political Sciences, Administrative Sciences and European Cultural Anthropology. He obtained a BA from the University of Constance (Germany) and earned an MA and a PhD from the University of Basel (Switzerland). In 2005 he did his post-doc (habilitation) on the responsibility of MNE in the process of sustainable development (venia docendi in Sociology).

Prior to be elected as Professor for Marketing and Management at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in 1999, Claus-Heinrich Daub was a Freelance Journalist for newspapers and magazines in Germany and Switzerland and held a number of marketing and communications roles in industry.

He is Director of the International Network for Sustainable Management (IfSM), Chairman of the International Sustainability Conference and the current President of the Society for Scientific Publishing in Switzerland. He serves as invited lecturer and guest professor at several Universities and as a guest editor of peer reviewed international scientific journals e.g. the Journal of Business Ethics, Business Strategy and the Environment, and The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology.

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Ergenzinger

Studied economics at the University of Zurich. Obtained a doctorate with a dissertation on “Flexibilisation of working time and its consequences for management”.

Senior research assistant at the Chair of Marketing, University of Zurich and Lecturer at the University of Zurich.

Lecturer at various institutions, focusing on marketing, international marketing, management, organisation and human resources management.

Worked in the private sector: experience in marketing and management.

Professor of Marketing Management at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland since November 1999.

Jan Frecè

Jan Frecè studied Sociology, Russian language, literature and linguistics and Man - Society - Environment (MGU) at the University of Basel resulting in a MA degree in 2002. During his studies he already worked as a technical advisor, project manager and trainer for the companies CIBA, Novartis and IBM Switzerland. After university he joined IBM Switzerland as a technical advisor, project manager. In 2004 he joined the European New Business Validation Team, taking over responsibility for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Middle East.

In his roles in Switzerland and Austria he specialized in services and products aiming at small and medium enterprises as well as non-profit organisations. At the same time he led several internal optimization and troubleshooting projects implementing enhanced processes, process interfaces, innovations and new concepts (e.g. Green-IT, client virtualization, etc.) for IBM Switzerland and IBM Austria.

In 2010 Jan Frecè joined the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, concentrating on tasks concerning implementation or support and further development of sustainability and sustainable management in small and medium enterprises and NPOs in Switzerland.

In 2009 Jan Frecè started a PhD in Sociology at the University of Basel.

Léa Hug

Studied Sustainable Development at the University of Basel (Master of Arts and Science) and of Communication at the University of Lugano (Bachelor of Science), with a focus on corporate communications.
Léa Hug worked in the communication departments of Lenovo, prosolvis and Clinique Cosmetics during her studies, as well as in the sustainability communication sector of BDS Consulting. After graduating from the University of Basel, she was responsible for the sustainability report and for corporate communication at Ernst Schweizer AG.

Since the spring of 2012, she has been a research associate at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts North-western Switzerland in the sectors of sustainable management and sustainability reports.

Prof. Dr. Andrea Kampschulte

Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) 1982 – 1989: Studies in Geography, English Studies, Education, Sociology, Mathematics

Scholarship Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 1990 - 1993

PhD in Geography 1996

Research Associate and Oberassistentin at the Departement of Geography / Urban and Regional Studies, University of Basel (Switzerland) 1997 - 2004

Since 2005 Lecturer and Research Associate, since 2010 Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland

Research Emphasis: Urban and Metropolitan Area development, Regional economic development, Sustainable Urban and Regional development, Urban and Regional Management, leisure industry and tourism, demographic research

Yvonne Scherrer

Yvonne Scherrer studied Sociology, Biology, Russian language, literature and linguistics as well as German literature at the University of Basel, resulting in a MA degree in 2002. Immediately afterwards, she joined the MAS on Developing countries and International Cooperation (NADEL) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (2002-2004). As part of her studies, Yvonne Scherrer spent one year as a project assistant in Jalalabad (Southern Kyrgyzstan) in a Swiss NPO involved in poverty alleviation and protection of natural resources. During this stay, she concentrated on monitoring and evaluating the project activities, especially in terms of the social implications.

In 2005 Yvonne Scherrer joined the Institute of Management at the University of Applied Sciences Aargau (later: Northwestern Switzerland). She was in first place responsible for the concept and organisation of the two International Sustainability Conferences ISC 2005 and ISC 2008 as well as for the edition of three special issues of scientific journals (‘Journal of Business Ethics’, ‘Business Strategy and the Environment’ and ‘The International Journal for Sustainable Development & World Ecology’). In 2009 she took over the role of a project manager in the frame of the CTI-project “Developing a Corporate Sustainability Management System for Non-Profit-Organizations (NPO)”. Her current research interests include sustainable approaches to NPO-management as well as issues related to knowledge management.

In 2009 Yvonne Scherrer started a PhD in Sociology at the University of Basel.

Dr. Jörg Schmidt

Studies in biology, forest and agricultural sciences at the University of Göttingen - MSc in biology (1999). PhD in environmental sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (2006).

Scientific occupations in the fields of ecology, biodiversity, environmental risk assessment and sustainable development, inter alia, with the Geobotanical Institute ETH Zurich, the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), Rotondella, Italy, the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Bonn, Germany and the Institute of Advanced Studies United Nations University (UNU-IAS), Yokohama, Japan. Teaching responsibilities at the Institute for Integrative Biology ETH Zurich and relevant experience at different universities in Japan.

Since 2010, senior project manager in sustainable development and management of organisations at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. Additional focal areas: biodiversity management in organisations, sustainability reporting.