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Professional Master Social Innovation & Management Faculty
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.
The faculty members are leading academics in current business research. Their latest findings are regularly published in foremost international journals. Their experience and international expertise enables the faculty to present an integrated, global management perspective emphasizing the application of theory to practice.
Academic Directors
Renate Buber
Senior Researcher | Institute of Nonprofit Management | WU Vienna | Austria
Michael Meyer
Professor | Institute for Nonprofit Management | WU Vienna | Austria
Reinhard Millner
Head of Department | Competence Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship | WU Vienna | Austria
Faculty
Renate Buber
Senior Researcher | Institute for Nonprofit Management | WU Vienna | Austria
Nikolaus Franke
Director | Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation | WU Vienna | Austria
Karin Heitzmann
Associate Professor & Head of the Research Institute Economics of Inequality (INEQ) | WU Vienna | Austria
Gorgi Krlev
Researcher | Centre for Social Investment (CSI) | University of Heidelberg | Germany
Florentine Maier
Senior Researcher | Institute for Nonprofit Management | WU Vienna | Austria
Gerlinde Mautner
Professor | Institute of English Business Communication | WU Vienna | Austria
Reinhard Millner
Head of Department | Competence Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship | WU Vienna | Austria
Anita Posch
Bitcoin advocate, author of (L)earn Bitcoin, a solopreneur and host of the Anita Posch show | Austria
Paul Rameder
Senior Researcher | Competenece Center for Nonprofit Organizationen and Social Entrepreneurship | WU Vienna | Austria
Lisa Ringhofer
Lisa has been a passionate development cooperation practitioner for 20 years. With a university education in Development Studies, Business Administration and a PhD in Sociology, she helps non-profit organisations of all sizes and corners across the globe to identify, secure and scale funding opportunities. As the co-founder and director of TripleMinds, she offers prospect research for specific projects or programs and provides grant writing and fundraising strategy support.
Susanne Roiser
Dr. Susanne Roiser is head of the department Digital Business and Innovation, as well as head of the Institute for Innovation Systems (i2x) at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten in Lower Austria and Vice Head of the Academic Board of the University. Susanne has a PhD in Business from the University of Economics and Business Vienna, Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Alfred Taudes
Professor | Department of Information Systems and Operations | WU Vienna | Austria
Nicole Traxler
Social Innovation Manager | ERSTE Foundation and Erste Group | CEO of Two Next GmbH, Vienna | Austria
Peter Vandor
Head of Department | Competence Center for Nonprofit Organisations and Social Entrepreneurship | WU Vienna | Austria
Nana Walzer
Nana Walzer is a communication scientist and graduated at the Institute of Communication Sciences/University of Vienna, Austria. She gives lectures on communication in different university courses and appears as expert for communication in both television and radio. With her company WalzerCOM she trains and develops individuals, teams, organizations and institutions in different fields of communication and personal development, leadership and change-management, positioning and strategy.
Jurgen Willems
Professor for Public Management and Governance | Department of Management | Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien) | Austria
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Theresa Züger
Head of Research Project Public Interest AI | Co-Lead AI & Society Lab | Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society | Germany
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