Meet our Founding members!
Initial founders

COO at Bauer Media Group

Professor of Economics, Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society

CEO at FehrAdvice & Partners AG

Managing Partner at FehrAdvice & Partners AG

CEO at NZZ Mediengruppe

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Professor at Princeton University

Managing Partner at FehrAdvice & Partners AG

Director, Institute for Advanced Studies, Professor of Economics, University of Vienna

Member Of the Supervisory Board at Swarovski

Entrepreneur, netzkundig.com

UBS Foundation Professor of Applied Economics

Nobel Prize Winner, Economist at New York University (NYU) and Policy Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur, First Female Member of the Logistics Hall of Fame

Organization Development Professional, Adj. Asst. Prof. at Saint Louis University, Senior Advisor BVA Nudge Unit

Holder of the Chair of Political Economy at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Scientific Founders

First Vice-President, National Tax Association Professor Department of Economics Tulane University

Professor of Behavioral Economics and Psychology at Duke University

Stepan Family Associate Professor at University of Notre Dame

Professor of Business Psychology at Kalaidos University, Advisor at The Negotiation Studio

Professor of Economics at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in Olten and private lecturer at the University of St. Gallen

Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and Academic Dean at the Harvard Kennedy School

Professor of Economics at University of Chicago

Silver Professor of Economics at New York University, Research Associate at National Bureau of Economic Research

Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne and the University of Maryland, Director on the Board of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas

Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley

Professor for Business Administration and Taxation at University of Mannheim Business School

Chair of Statistics and Econometrics at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

Assistant Professor at University of Heidelberg

President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Head of Research & Development at Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences

Behavioral Economist and Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management Emeritus at Cornell University

Assistant Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management

Professor of Economics at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Director of the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)

Professor of Business at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Director of the Institute for Customer Insight (ICI-HSG)

Managing Partner and Scientific Director at SORA Institute for Social Research and Consulting

Macroeconomist at George Mason University and Author

Professor at University of Vienna, Faculty of Psychology

Senior Economist at Agenda Austria

Professor of Business Administration at Goethe University Frankfurt

Director of the department Behaviour on Markets

Economist at the University of Chicago

Edward and Mollie Arnold Professor of Finance at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Economics at Haas School of Business

Professor of Marketing and Co-Director Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy

Professor of Economics at London School of Economics and Political Science

Professor of Economics at University of Vienna

Professor of Economics and Deputy Head of the Institute for International Economics at WU, Senior Economist at WIFO

Professor of Economics at University of Munich (LMU), Director of the ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys, ifo Institute

Prof. emeritus for Health Prevention

INSEAD’s Octapharma Chaired Professor of Decision Neuroscience

Professor of Public Economics at Maastricht University

Professor of economic and organizational sociology

Adjunct Professor of Business Administration with special emphasis on Diversity Management at University of St. Gallen

Professor of Public Economics at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Professor of mathematics at University of Vienna

Professor of Economics at University of Fribourg

Professor for Economics at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg

Consultant for Public Finance at the Austrian Institute for Economic Research

Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Section at ENS DE LYON

Vice Rector Human Resources and Gender at TU Vienna

Professor and Head of Horten Centre at University Hospital Zurich

Director Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bonn

Director of EcoAustria – Institute for Economic Research

Research Director at EHESS Paris (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences)

Professor, Director of FAIR – The Choice Lab NHH Norwegian School of Economics

Professor of public economics and Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs at the University of Vienna.

Research Professor, CNRS, GATE (CNRS – University of Lyon)

Professor for Human Resources Management at University of St. Gallen

Professor of Economics at Humboldt University

Novartis Chaired Professor of Management and Environment, Professor of Marketing INSEAD, Singapore
Business founders

Former Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor of Austria, Austrian entrepreneur and consultant

Co-Founder & CEO of NanoTemper, Capital Top 40 under 40

Founder & CEO Human Decision Design GmbH, Owner Decision Architect Reto Blum

Management & organisational consultant & mentor

Group Head of Institutional Clients at Raiffeisen Bank International AG

Owner and CEO at GetDiversity GmbH

Investment Managerin at Bissell Family Office, Member of the Advisory Board at Christoph Kroschke GmbH, Member of the Board at Crayon Data

Senior Partner at Dynamics Group AG

CEO & Founder GROWTH POSITIVE

Founding Partner at PILFOR AG

Managing Director NetSkill Solutions GmbH

Founding Partner at PILFOR AG

Member of the Zurich Cantonal Council

Owner, Heidi Glück media + public affairs consulting GmbH

CEO/Managing Partner at smartcut consulting AG

Managing Partner at Inspire 925, Member of the Board, Head of Studies “Executive MBA Digital Leadership” at School of Economics Zurich (HWZ), Author, Speaker

Management & Organisation Designer

Professor for Entrepreneurship, Female Founder, Top 40 under 40 by Capital Magazine 2019

Senior Executive Leader for Transformation in Infrastructure & Energy | C-Level and Board Member at BKW AG

Founder and managing director at Karmasin Research&Identity GmbH

Managing Partner at Swiss Finance Startups, Member of the board of directors at Globalance Bank AG

CEO Monvia Gesundheitszentrum AG, Lecturer at Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration (HWZ)

Managing partner of MKP Invest Gesellschaft mbH

Advisor, Founder, Investor – Managing Partner hkp/// group

International Executive Coach

Founder and Managing Partner at peopleXpert

Chairman of the Board of the Zollverein Foundation, UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein

Former Governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and Economist

Climate Activist

President of the Federation of Austrian Industry Vorarlberg

Media and political consultant, university lecturer, journalism trainer, columnist, essayist, specialist journalist

CEO of IPG Mediabrands Switzerland

Managing Lawyer at Scheer Rechtsanwalt GmbH Vienna

Chairman & Partner / Co-Founder at Hirzel.Neef.Schmid.Konsulenten

Managing Director of the BVA Group, Founder & CEO of the BVA Nudge Unit and President of NudgeFrance

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Infas Holding AG

Founder & President at Global Peter Drucker Forum

Student and Former President of the Youth Parliament Canton of Zurich

Hauptgeschäftsführer bei DER MITTELSTANDSVERBUND

Partner at Deloitte Consulting

Head of Human Ressources at Telekom Austria Group
Media founders

Journalist at oe24.at

Chief Economist Tages-Anzeiger and SonntagsZeitung

Financial Journalist and Founding Partner of The Market

Economics-Editor-in-chief at Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Austrian PR consultant, moderator, entrepreneur, political activist and cabaret artist

Head of Corporate Center, Member of the Group Executive Board Ringier AG

Essayist, founding member brand eins

Austrian journalist and author

CEO Russmedia Digital, Editor in Chief at Vorarlberger Nachrichten, President of the European Division of the International News Media Association (INMA)