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

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Michael Meyer

Professor | Institute for Nonprofit Management | WU Vienna | Austria

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Reinhard Millner

Head of Department | Competence Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship | WU Vienna | Austria

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Faculty

Renate Buber

Senior Researcher | Institute for Nonprofit Management | WU Vienna | Austria

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Helmut Anheier

Senior Professor of Sociology | Hertie School, Berlin | Germany

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Walter Emberger

Founder Teach for Austria | WU Alumni Entrepreneur 2013

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Kay Felder

Social Scientist | Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG | Austria

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Nikolaus Franke

Director | Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation | WU Vienna | Austria

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Jakob Hackel

Senior Scientist | Research Institute for Crypto-Economics | WU Vienna | Austria

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Karin Heitzmann

Associate Professor & Head of the Research Institute Economics of Inequality (INEQ) | WU Vienna | Austria

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Lisa Schmidthuber

Lisa Hohensinn

Assistant Professor | Institute for Public Management and Governance | WU Vienna | Austria

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Christian Horak

Partner | EY-Parthenon | Austria

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Dr. Ilse Klanner

Data-driven trend researcher, innovation consultant and strategist | ERSTE Foundation NGO Academy | Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt | TD Reply | Germany

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Gorgi Krlev

Researcher | Centre for Social Investment (CSI) | University of Heidelberg | Germany

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Hannah Lux

Social Entrepreneur | Vienna | Austria

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Florentine Maier

Senior Researcher | Institute for Nonprofit Management | WU Vienna | Austria

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Gerlinde Mautner

Professor | Institute of English Business Communication | WU Vienna | Austria

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Martin Mehrwald

Competence Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship | WU Vienna | Austria

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Prof. Michael Meyer Portrait

Michael Meyer

Professor | Institute for Nonprofit Management | WU Vienna | Austria

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Reinhard Millner

Head of Department | Competence Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship | WU Vienna | Austria

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Florian Pomper

Head of Innovation | Caritas Vienna | Austria

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Anita Posch

Bitcoin advocate, author of (L)earn Bitcoin, a solopreneur and host of the Anita Posch show | Austria

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Paul Rameder

Senior Researcher | Competenece Center for Nonprofit Organizationen and Social Entrepreneurship | WU Vienna | Austria

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Lisa Ringhofer

Co-Founder & Senior Consultant | TripleMinds | Austria

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Susanne Roiser

Head of Department | Digital Business and Innovation & Head of Institute | Innovation Systems | University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten | Austria

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Birte Schaper

Birte Schaper

Senior Service Designerin | Germany

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Michael Schiffinger

Department Management | Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organisational Behaviour | WU Vienna | Austria

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Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl

Co-Director of the European Center for Social Finance | Munich Business School | Germany

Alfred Taudes

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

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Nicole Traxler

Social Innovation Manager | ERSTE Foundation and Erste Group | CEO of Two Next GmbH, Vienna | Austria

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Daniela Unterholzner

CEO | neunerhaus | Austria

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Peter Vandor

Head of Department | Competence Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship | WU Vienna | Austria

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Nana Walzer

Communication Scientist | WalzerCOM | Austria

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Jurgen Willems

Professor | Institute for Public Management and Governance | WU Vienna | 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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