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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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Alexander Eisl

CSO | ABC Research

Lecturer | Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance | WU Vienna

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Thomas Funke

Managing Director, TechQuartier Frankfurt

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

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

Siegfried Handschuh

Professor of Data Science | Director of Institute of Computer Science | University of St. Gallen

Ronald Hochreiter

President & CEO | Academy of Data Science in Finance | Austria

Lecturer | Research Institute for Computational Methods | WU Vienna | Austria

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Elmar Kiesling

Postdoctoral Researcher | TU Vienna | WU Vienna | Austria

Sabrina Kirrane

Sabrina Kirrane

Assistant Professor | Institute for Information Business | member of the Institute for Cryptoeconomics | WU Vienna

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

Patricia Klarner

Professor | Institute for Organization Design | WU Vienna | Austria

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Stefan Koch

Vice-Rector and Professor | Institute for Business Informatics | Johannes Kepler University Linz | Austria

- IT management, strategy and governance in companies
- Business models and open innovation processes in the digital economy

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Brigitte Lutz

Data Governance coordinator of the City of Vienna | Executive group for Organisation, Safety and Security | Process management & ICT strategy | Chief Executive Office of the City of Vienna

- Blockchain
- Open Government
- Open Data

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Mario Meir-Huber

Head of Data | UNIQA Insurance Group AG 

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Axel Polleres

Professor and Head of Institute | Department of Information Systems & Operations | Institute for Information Business | WU Vienna | Austria

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Gerald Reiner

Full Professor | Institute for Production Management | WU Vienna | Austria

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Thomas Reutterer

Thomas Reutterer

Head of Institute | Service Marketing and Tourism | WU Vienna

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- Retail and service marketing
- Customer value management
- Marketing models for customer-base analysis and decision support

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Simon Steyskal

Research Scientist | T DAI CON-AT | Siemens AG | Austria 

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Mark Strembeck

Associate Professor | Institute for Information Systems and New Media | WU Vienna | Austria

- Network Analysis

- Data Science

- Security Engineering

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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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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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