Prof. Dr. René Reinald Schmidpeter
Profile
Prof. Dr. René Reinald Schmidpeter Dozent
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Address
Berner Fachhochschule
Business School
Institut Sustainable Business
Brückenstrasse 73
3005 Bern
Activities
Responsibilities
Head of MAS Sustainable Transformation
Co-Head of CAS Board of Directors, ESG & Future Readiness
Co-Head of CAS Sustainable and resilient supply chains
Coordinator Sustainable Management
Teaching
Degree programmes
MAS Sustainable Transformation
CAS Board of Directors, ESG & Future Readiness
CAS Sustainable and resilient supply chains
Master Circular Innovation and Sustainability
Subjects
Sustainable Transformation, Corporate Social Responsiblity, Business Ethics, Sustainable Economics
Research
Specialisations
Sustainable Economics
Transdisciplinary Research
Responsible Leadership
Focus areas
Sustainable Management
Corporate Social Responsibility
Business Ethics
CV
Biography
- Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter is Professor of Business Administration, specializing in Sustainable Management, at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) in Bern, Switzerland, and a Scientific Researcher at the Parmenides Foundation in Munich, Germany. Previously, he served as the Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Sustainable Management at Cologne Business School in Cologne, Germany. He has held visiting professorships and conducted research stays at leading institutions in England, the United States, India, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Prof. Schmidpeter is an internationally recognized series editor at Springer Nature. He also serves as an Academic Advisor to the F.A.Z. Institute and as Academic Chair of the annual Responsible Leadership Conference organized by the F.A.Z. Institute in Frankfurt. In addition, he is a co-founder of Tetranomics SE in Germany and the Global Corporate Governance Institute (GCGI) in London.
Professional experience
- 1999-2004 Scientific Researcher University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
- 2004-2007 Senior Advisor Senior Advisor, Federal Ministry for Social Security and Consumer Protection
- 2008-2010 Project Manager Bertelsmann Foundation
- 2009-2013 Lecturer University of Applied Science Ingolstadt
- 2014-2020 Professor Cologne Business School (CBS)
- 2021-2022 Professor International University (IU)
- 2022-ongoing Professor Bern University of Applied Science (BFH)
Education
- 1994-1997 BA University of Cooperative State University, Heidenheim
- 1997-1999 MA South Bank University
- 2008 Dr. phil. University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Memberships
Internal memberships
Sustainable Management
External memberships
Global Governance Institute
European Business Ethics Association
FAZ Institute
Parmenides Foundation
Language skills and intercultural knowledge
Language skills
- German - Native or bilingual proficiency
- English - Full professional proficiency
Intercultural knowledge
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- United States of America
- India
- China
- Australia
- New Zealand