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Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kissling-Näf

Profile

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kissling-Näf Direktorin

Contact

Links

  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Business School
    Wirtschaft
    Brückenstrasse 73
    3005 Bern

Activities

  • Dean Business School Bern University of Applied Sciences 2018 to present

  • Co- Head Institute Sustainable Business

  • Strategic thematic field (Presideny university executive board committee

  • Change/Transformation Management
    Resource Policy
    Social Innovation

Teaching

  • Bachelor Business Administration

  • CAS Fit for Future Boardroom

  • Social Innovation

Research

  • Sustainable development, resource management and environmental economics

  • Institutional economics and common property

  • Policy Analysis

  • Social Innovation

  • Change and transformation management

  • Transformation and change management

  • Resource efficiency and public policy

CV

  • Dr. Ingrid Kissling-Näf, an economist and political scientist, has been Head of the Department of Business at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) since January 2018. Prior to this, she led the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Swiss National Science Foundation for five years.

    She studied Theology and Economics at the University of Fribourg and earned a Master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Lausanne. She completed her doctorate in Economics at the University of St. Gallen before taking up an Assistant Professorship at ETH Zurich.
  • 2018 Dean Business School Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2013-2017 Head Division Humanities and Social Sciences Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern.
  • 2011-2013 Head Resource Efficieny Ernst Basler und Partner, Zürich
  • 2007-2010 Director Swiss Innovation Agency, former KTI Swiss Innovation Agency, former KTI
  • 2001-2007 Secretary General Swiss Academy of Sciences
  • 1996-2001 Assistan Professor Forest Resource Economics Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
  • 1991-1995 Dr. oec. HSG University of St. Gallen
  • 1989-1990 Master in Public Administration Idheap Lausanne
  • 1983-1989 Lic. theol. University of Fribourg/Paris
  • 2024 Competent Boards
    2021/2022 Higher Education Management
    2014 IMD-Kurs Mobilizing People
    2005-2007 NPO-Management VMI Fribourg

Projects

Publications

Memberships

  • Member University Executive Board Bern

  • Presidency University Executive Board Committee Sustainable Development

  • Co- Presidency Alliance Circular Economy Bern

  • Co-Presidency Social Innovation Bern Accelerator Bern

  • Swiss Unicef Delegate

  • City councellor (city council)

  • President of the foundation council Science & Cité from September 2026

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

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