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Faculty | MBA in Digital Transformation & Data Science
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
Verena Dorner
Head of Institute for Digital Ecosystems | Deputy academic director of the Master's Program on Digital Economy | Member of the WU Competence Center for Experimental Research | WU Vienna | Austria
Faculty
Andreas Blumauer
Founder and CEO | Semantic Web Company GmbH
- Corporate Semantic Web
- Semantic Technologies
- Knowledge Management
Verena Dorner
Head of Institute for Digital Ecosystems | Deputy academic director of the Master's Program on Digital Economy | Member of the WU Competence Center for Experimental Research | WU Vienna | Austria
Alexander Eisl
CSO | ABC Research
Lecturer | Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance | WU Vienna
Thomas Funke
Managing Director, TechQuartier Frankfurt
- Start-ups & Company Formation
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Idea Development & Implementation
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
Elmar Kiesling
Postdoctoral Researcher | TU Vienna | WU Vienna | Austria
Sabrina Kirrane
Assistant Professor | Institute for Information Business | member of the Institute for Cryptoeconomics | WU Vienna
- Digital forensics
- Data analytics
- Semantic web and linked data
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
Thomas Kolarik
Erste Group | Advisor to the CEO, Banca Comercială Română
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
Axel Polleres
Professor and Head of Institute | Department of Information Systems & Operations | Institute for Information Business | WU Vienna | Austria
Gerald Reiner
Full Professor | Institute for Production Management | WU Vienna | Austria
Thomas Reutterer
Head of Institute | Service Marketing and Tourism | WU Vienna
- Retail and service marketing
- Customer value management
- Marketing models for customer-base analysis and decision support
Simon Steyskal
Research Scientist | T DAI CON-AT | Siemens AG | Austria
Alfred Taudes
Professor | Department of Information Systems and Operations | WU Vienna | Austria
Harald Trautsch
Co-founder and CEO of Dolphin Technologies | Pioneer in the vehicle telematics industry
Vinzenz Treytl
Senior Researcher | ABC Research
Researcher & Lecturer | Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation | WU Vienna
Faculty - Business Core
Magnus Bild
Founding Partner | Bild & Runsten AB | Sweden
Winner of Teaching Award 2018/2019/2020
Ting Li
Professor | Rotterdam School of Management | The Netherlands
Winner of Teaching Award 2019
Christian Lüthje
Professor and Chair | Institute of Innovation Marketing | Hamburg University of Technology | Germany
Christof Miska
Institute for International Business | WU Vienna | Austria
- Responsible Global Leadership
- Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Organisational development
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
Gal Oestreicher-Singer
Professor | Department of Management of Technology and Information Systems | Tel Aviv University | Israel
Mikael Runsten
Founding Partner | Bild & Runsten AB | Sweden
Bernhard Scherzinger
Executive Director | Management Results Consulting GmbH | Austria
Fabrizio Zerbini
Professor of Marketing, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies | ESCP Europe | France
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