Christoph Burger
Faculty Professional, ESMT and Managing Director, ESMT Customized Solutions
Christoph Burger is a member of the faculty at ESMT and managing director of ESMT Customized Solutions GmbH.
He studied business administration and economics at the University of Saarbrücken (Germany), the Hochschule St. Gallen (Switzerland), and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA). Christoph has taught microeconomics at the University of Ann Arbor, was project leader at Otto Versand, worked as a strategy consultant at Arthur D. Little and as an independent consultant, and was vice president at the Bertelsmann Buch AG.
Christoph has professional experience in strategy, post-merger integration, equity financing as well as customer and supplier management. He has solid international experience, spanning Northern and Eastern Europe and the United States.
At ESMT, Christoph directs and teaches in the open enrollment programs Decision Making and Entscheidungs-/ Verhandlunsgtechniken as well as in customized executive programs for clients such as BDI, Deutsche Lufthansa, E.ON, European Business Congress, and T-Systems. He has previously taught in the MBA program of Guanghua School of Management of Peking University and the EMBA and CEO program of CKGSB. He also runs discussion forums such as the Climate Lunch series together with BDI, WWF.
Christoph has published several articles, case studies, book chapters/books in the field of customer management, business plan assessment, industry development, and decision making/negotiations. His current research focus is on long-term industry development specifically in the energy sector and decision making and negotiations.
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