Executive MBA Faculty
 Derek F. Abell |
Derek F. Abell is Professor emeritus and is the Founding President of ESMT. Before joining ESMT, he was Professor of Strategy and Marketing at IMD. Prior to that, he spent more than ten years as a faculty member at Harvard Business School. D.B.A., Harvard Business School.
 Zoltán Antal-Mokos |
Zoltán Antal-Mokos is Associate Professor of Strategy. Before joining ESMT, he held the McKinsey & Co. Chair in Strategy, and he was the Director of the School of Management at Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. He has also been a visiting professor in France, and has twenty years of consulting experience. Ph.D., London Business School, University of London.
 Guillermo Baquero |
Guillermo Baquero was appointed to ESMT's Full-time faculty in January 2008. Previously he joined ESMT in September 2007 part-time as an affiliate scholar. Guillermo’s research has focused on the persistence of hedge funds and mutual funds, the behavior of hedge fund investors, behavioral finance and experimental economics.
 Andreas Bernhardt |
Andreas Bernhardt is Program Director at ESMT Customized Solutions and has over 15 years of practical leadership development and coaching experience. He has designed and delivered executive programs for GlaxoSmithKline, B. Braun, BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte, Metro, Kaufhof, and Hugo Boss, and taught sessions on MBA, young managers, and executive level education.
 Francis Bidault |
Francis Bidault is Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy, and Director of the Full-time MBA program. Before joining ESMT, he was Professor and Director of the MBA program at IMD, Co-Director of Theseus Institute in France and Dean of the MBA there. Doctorat d’Etat in Management, Université de Montpellier II, Doctorat 3eme-cycle, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Habilitation, Université Lyon III.
 Niels Billou |
Niels Billou is Assistant Professor at ESMT. Before joining ESMT, he taught executives, MBA participants and undergraduates at the Ivey Business School in Canada, as well as at London Business School. Ph.D., London Business School, University of London.
 Christoph Burger |
Christoph Burger is the Head of the Practice Groups Telecom, Transport, Utilities and General Management at ESMT Customized Solutions. Before that he was a Senior Manager at Arthur D. Little and Vice President of Bertelsmann Buch AG.
 Francis de Véricourt |
Francis de Véricourt is Full Professor as well as the first Associate Dean of R&D, playing an integral part in guiding the direction of ESMT’s research activities. His research interests broadly lie in developing advanced analytical methods to help make better managerial decisions.
 Michał Grajek |
Michał Grajek joined the ESMT faculty as Assistant Professor in January 2007. Previously he worked as a Research Fellow in the “Competitiveness and Industrial Change” unit of the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). He has also conducted research in the Humboldt-University based project sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research titled “Internet Economy”. Dr. rer. pol. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
 Rajshri Jayaraman |
Rajshri Jayaraman is Assistant Professor at ESMT (as of June 2007). Prior to joining ESMT she was Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator at the Center for Economic Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Ph.D., Cornell University.
 Konstantin Korotov |
Konstantin Korotov is Assistant Professor at ESMT. He has over ten years of practical leadership development experience in the US, Russia, UK, France, Portugal, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany and Latvia. Ph.D., INSEAD.
 Martin Kupp |
Martin Kupp is a member of ESMT’s faculty as well as Program Director at ESMT Customized Solutions. His current research interests focus on business strategy in technology markets, strategic innovation and technology-enabled innovation and sales strategy on B2B markets.
 Urs Müller |
Urs Müller is Program Director at ESMT Customized Solutions. Urs Müller's areas of expertise include strategy, change management, ethics and intercultural management.
 Wulff Plinke |
Wulff Plinke is Founding Dean of ESMT. Prior to this position, he was Professor of Industrial Marketing Management at Universität Hannover, at Freie Universität Berlin and at Humboldt Universität Berlin. Habilitation, Ruhr Universität Bochum.
 Olaf Plötner |
Olaf Plötner is Managing Director of ESMT Customized Solutions. He is also the head of the Practice Group Technology Based Industries and is a guest lecturer in Accounting at Freie Universität Berlin. Dr. rer. pol., Freie Universität Berlin.
 Mario Rese |
Mario Rese is Affiliate Professor at ESMT and Professor for Business Administration and Marketing at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Dr. rer. pol., Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin.
 Jörg Rocholl |
Jörg Rocholl is Associate Professor at ESMT. He holds both his Ph.D. in Finance and Economics and his MPhil from Columbia Business School. Jörg’s research interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Financial Intermediation.
 Lars-Hendrik Röller |
Lars-Hendrik Röller is President of ESMT. Before joining ESMT, he was the first Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission. Lars-Hendrik Röller was a professor at INSEAD from 1987 to 1999. In 1994 he became the Director of the “Competitiveness and Industrial Change” unit at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Europe’s largest social science research center. In 1995 he was appointed Professor for Industrial Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His areas of expertise include competition, strategy and regulation. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
 Ulf Schäfer |
Ulf Schäfer is Program Director at ESMT Customized Solutions. He was a tutor of philosophy and logic for many years and after graduation lectured game theory and decision theory at the University of Bonn. Later he worked as a strategy consultant for A.T. Kearney and co-founded the strategy consulting firm The Launch Group (TLG).
 Erik H. Schlie |
Erik H. Schlie is Assistant Professor of Marketing and a member of ESMT's founding faculty. His areas of interest include the interfaces between marketing, strategy and innovation. Erik is also the Program Director of the 2007/08 Executive Transition Program (ETP). His previous professional life includes more than ten years of international experience in business schools and industry. Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
 Simon Wakeman |
Simon Wakeman is Assistant Professor at ESMT. His research interests lie at the intersection of economics, firm strategy, technological innovation, and law. He seeks to apply rigorous theoretical and empirical analysis to important issues in firm strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and ultimately to develop decision frameworks for managers and business lawyers.
 Luc Wathieu |
Luc Wathieu is Full Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty. His field of specialization is marketing, with emphasis in customer behavior and marketing strategy. His research combines mathematical models, experiments, and case studies, and covers topics such as pricing, differentiation, interactive marketing, adaptive behavior, consumer empowerment.
Faculty listed here represent permanent ESMT faculty as well as affiliate and visiting faculty who have taught on ESMT degree and executive programs. As the faculty at ESMT is continuously growing, we suggest you consult Faculty and Research on a regular basis to stay up-to-date.