Prof. Markus Schär

• Head Global Engagement BFH-AHB

• Prof. for International Management and Leadership

• Director of the CDC - Center for sustainable Development and Cooperation
  (a spin-off of Bern University of Applied Sciences)

• BSc Holz

• Elective Module Leadership: Seminar International Management

• Markus Schär is a lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH and responsible for international relations and global engagement in the Department of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering. He is also heading the Center for sustainable Development and Cooperation, which was launched in April 2022 as a BFH spin-off.
  
  Prior to his engagement at BFH, Markus Schär worked for several years in the areas of international development cooperation as well as organizational and leadership development at leading private institutions around the globe and for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York.
  
  A Swiss citizen, Markus was born in Malaysia, grew up in Cameroon and Switzerland and is highly attuned to cross-cultural communication and management issues.
  
  Specialities: Private Public Partnerships for Development (PPP), policy advice and strategy development, value chains, change management and organisational development.

• since 2023 Head Global Engagement BFH-AHB Bern University of Applied Sciences | BFH
• since 2022 Director CDC spin-off CDC Centre for sustainable Development and Cooperation | Freiburg
• since 2017 Lecturer for international Management, Finance and Leadership Bern University of Applied Sciences | BFH
• 2011 - 2014 Founding Partner and Director (2014-2016 Vorstand) Swiss Capacity Building Facility | SCBF
• 2017 - 2022 Head CDC - Centre for sustainable Development and Cooperation Bern University of Applied Sciences | BFH
• 2007 - 2016 Managing Director / Co-Director Financial Systems Development Services AG | Sub-Sahara Africa
• 2007 - 2012 Managing Partner Swiss Microfinance Holding SA
• 2005 - 2006 Consultant Organizational Development and HRM United Nations Development Program UNDP | New York
• 2000 - 2005 Senior Consultant and Program Manager SBC Warburg Dillon Read / UBS AG | Zurich | London | New York
• 1997 - 2000 HR Talent Management Asia-Pacific (International Mobility Program) SBC Warburg Dillon Read | Singapore | Hong Kong
• 1995 - 1997 Projektleiter (Graduate trainee program, JKP) Swiss Banking Cooperation / SBC | Basel

• Formation prof. métiers du bois Cameroun (SEM)

• Curriculum Review Bhutan (SDC)

• Shafal-Design on Migration (SDC)

• Vocational Training CH-Cuba, UNDP - PROFET

• Pinoy Tannin, Philippines (SNF)

• CIIC3 - Coopération Interdisciplinaire et Interculturelle Contre le Changement Climatique: CDC - Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima (Movetia)

• S4C - Skills for Competency Indonesia (SECO)

• Implementation of the national TVET reform strategic plan - Kingdom of Bhutan (ADB)

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• Member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the HPCI - Hugo P. Cecchini Institute

• Member of the BHF Global Engagement Gremium

• Working Group "Sustainability and Equal Opportunitiy"

• Working Group "Global Competence"

• Board Member of the Swiss Forum for Skills Development and International Cooperation

• Member of the Strategic Advisory Board of SMH - Swiss Microfinance Holding S.A.

2017 wurde das Jugendprogrammes LIFT mit dem „Swiss Re Milizpreis“ ausgezeichnet. Der Preis in Höhe von CHF 40'000 wurde am 14. Juli 2017 an Markus Schär in seiner Funktion als Präsident und Mario von Cranach, dem Initianten des Projektes überreicht.

• Breidenbach Jonas Kritische Faktoren bei der Durchführung einer Wertschöpfungskettenanalyse in Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern 2019

• von Muralt Kay Andrea Developing concepts to support young entrepreneurship and carpentry businesses for Smiling Gecko in Cambodia 2019

• German - Native or bilingual proficiency
• English - Full professional proficiency
• French - Professional working proficiency
• Spanish - Elementary proficiency

• Algeria
• Albania
• Bhutan
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Cameroon
• Ghana
• Hong Kong
• India
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Mali
• Mozambique
• New Zealand
• Philippines
• Senegal
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• United States of America