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Executive MBA in Digital Transformation & Data Science Faculty

Executive MBA Digital Transformation & Data Science | Faculty Members

Our faculty comprises some of the finest business minds in the world, drawn from an expert pool from WU Vienna and prestigious partner universities around the globe. The faculty members bring fresh perspectives and new ideas to all facets of business. They share a passion for knowledge development and constantly encourage their students to strive for higher standards. 

Faculty members are leading academics in current business research. Their latest findings are regularly published in foremost international journals. Their combined experience and international expertise enables the faculty to present an integrated, global management perspective emphasizing the application of theory to practice.

Academic Director

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Verena Dorner

Head of Institute for Digital Ecosystems | Academic director of the Master's Program on Digital Economy | Member of the WU Competence Center for Experimental Research | WU Vienna | Austria

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Faculty - Specialization

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Andreas Blumauer

Founder and CEO | Semantic Web Company GmbH

- Corporate Semantic Web
- Semantic Technologies
- Knowledge Management

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Stefan Craß

Senior Researcher | ABC Research

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Daniel Dan

External Lecturer

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Verena Dorner

Head of Institute for Digital Ecosystems | Academic director of the Master's Program on Digital Economy | Member of the WU Competence Center for Experimental Research | WU Vienna | Austria

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Gerhard Embacher-Köhle

Consultant | The World Bank

- User-Centric Service Design
- Digital Government Transformation
- Green and Digital Public Investment & Asset Management
- Mobile Government

Thomas Funke

Managing Director, TechQuartier Frankfurt

- Start-ups & Company Formation
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Idea Development & Implementation

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Martin Giesswein

Co-Founder Talent Garden Vienna 2017/18,

DigitalCity.Wien Co-initiator, Exit-CEO Immobilien.NET 2014

Author, Podcaster, Keynote Speaker

More information: www.martingiesswein.com

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Alin Kalam

International lecturer and keynote speaker

Head of AI Coordination & Market Intelligence at UNIQA Insurance Group

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Elmar Kiesling

Postdoctoral Researcher | TU Vienna | WU Vienna | Austria

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Sabrina Kirrane

Sabrina Kirrane

Associate Professor | Institute for Information Business | Member of the Institute for Cryptoeconomics | WU Vienna

- Digital forensics
- Data analytics
- Semantic web and linked data

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Patricia Klarner

Professor | Institute for Organization Design | WU Vienna | Austria

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Ted Kwartler

Ted Kwartler

Managing Director North American Responsible AI, Accenture & Adjunct Faculty Harvard Extension School

- Data science & NLP 
- Author of multiple analytical textbooks & contributed chapters

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Mario Meir-Huber

Vice President, Data & AI | Magenta Telekom

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Gal Oestreicher-Singer

Professor & Associate Dean of Research | Department of Management of Technology and Information Systems | Tel Aviv University | Israel

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Maurizio Poli

Senior Lecturer | SDA Bocconi | Italy

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Alfred Taudes

Professor | Department of Information Systems and Operations | WU Vienna | Austria

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Vinzenz Treytl

Senior Researcher | ABC Research

Researcher & Lecturer | Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation | WU Vienna

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Liuhuaying Yang

Liuhuaying Yang

Data Visualization Researcher & Faculty | Complexity Science Hub | Austria

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Faculty - Business Core

Magnus Bild

Founding Partner | Bild & Runsten AB | Sweden

Winner of Teaching Award 2018/2019/2020

Maneesh Kumar

Professor | Cardiff University | United Kingdom

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Christian Lüthje

Professor and Chair | Institute of Innovation Marketing | Hamburg University of Technology | Germany

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Markus Mädler

Senior Lecturer in the Accounting department | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management | Germany

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Dana Minbaeva

Dana Minbaeva

Professor | Human Resource Management | King's Business School | King’s College of London | UK

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Christof Miska

Institute for International Business | WU Vienna | Austria

- Responsible Global Leadership
- Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- International Organizational Behavior
- International Management
- Corporate Purpose

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Mojmir Mrak

Professor | University of Ljubljana | Slovenia

Phillip C. Nell

Professor and Head of Institute | Institute for International Business | Head of WU’s Competence Center for Emerging Markets and CEE | WU Vienna | Austria

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Maurizio Poli

Senior Lecturer | SDA Bocconi | Italy

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Shachar Reichman

Assistant Professor of Information Systems | The Coller School of Management | Tel Aviv University

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Mikael Runsten

Founding Partner | Bild & Runsten AB | Sweden

Bernhard Scherzinger

Executive Director | Management Results Consulting GmbH | Austria

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Detlef Schoder

Professor | Department of Information Systems and Information Management | University of Cologne | Germany

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Astrid Schornick

Professor | CBS International Business School Cologne | Germany

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David Sluss

Professor | ESSEC Business School | France

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Günter Stahl

Professor | Institute for International Business | WU Vienna | Austria

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Ed Weenk

Senior Associate Professor | QuSL | Netherlands

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Martin Zagler

Professor | WU Vienna | Austria

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Fabrizio Zerbini

Professor of Marketing, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies | ESCP Europe | France

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Milda Zilinskaite

Senior Scientist | WU Vienna | Austria

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