Courses: Comparative Law, International Litigation I & II, International Arbitration I & II, Introduction to U.S. Law

As of April 1st, 2006, Clifford Larsen is UBS Professor of Law at the Bucerius Law School and Dean for the Master of Law and Business - Joachim Herz Program. He is responsible for the legal curriculum of the MLB Program. Professor Larsen studied at Tulane University. Before graduating from Tulane in 1980, Professor Larsen studied as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University and as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar for one year at the University of Hamburg. During his studies at Tulane University School of Law, he was chosen for a Cecil Rhodes Scholarship for three years of study at Oxford University.

After completing his Master's Degree there, Professor Larsen completed his law studies at the University of Virginia. After graduation and becoming a member of both the New York and Louisiana bars, his interest in international and comparative law led him to practice at the New York office of White & Case. In 1991, he moved to S.G. Archibald, a long-established Paris firm. During his work in Paris, he was admitted to French practice as avocat à la cour de Paris. He also began teaching part-time, both in summer programs for U.S. law schools and at the Université de Paris X (Nanterre).

In 1993, Larsen received an offer of a professorship from Washington & Lee University. In his 13 years there, he published a number of articles, in German and English, primarily in the areas of arbitration and comparative law, became a full professor, and was named Director of International Legal Studies Programs. He started exchange programs with four foreign universities (including the Bucerius Law School) and was founding director of the school's LL.M. program. As well as teaching in Mexico and frequently in Cologne for the University of California, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Commerzbank Visiting Professor of Law at the Bucerius Law School, during which time he taught in English in the International Program and in German in the LL.B. curriculum.

Course: Foundations of Investments

Markus Rudolf is Associate Dean and full professor of finance at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and Academic Director for the Master of Law and Business Program. He is responsible for the business and management curriculum of the Master’s Program. He also heads WHU’s center of Private Banking. He earned his Ph.D. degree in fall 1994 and his habilitation degree in May 1999, both at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He worked as a visiting scholar at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, the Kellogg Business School in Evanston, Illinois, among others. His recent publications focus on private banking, asset management and risk management. He is chairman of the “Campus for Finance Association” and co-editor of the journal "Financial Markets and Portfolio Management". He acts as research director at the German Financial Analysts Association (DVFA – Deutsche Vereinigung für Finanzanalyse und Asset Management) and holds supervisory board positions at Black Rock Asset Management Deutschland AG, Böker & Paul- Kanzlei für Vermögensmanagement and Brain Capital GmbH

Course:  Corporate Governance

Christian Andres is full professor of Empirical Corporate Finance at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany. Before joining WHU he has held appointments at the universities of Bonn and Mannheim, Germany. He holds a master’s degree in economics and a PhD in finance from the University of Bonn. During his academic career, he spent several months as a visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield, U.K., and at the University of Florida, Gainesville, U.S.A.

His primary research interests are in the areas of empirical corporate finance and corporate governance, with an emphasis on payout policy, private equity, and family ownership and control. He has published in academic journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Empirical Finance, and the European Journal of Finance, and contributed book chapters to a number of international books.

Course: International Trade Law

Dr. Tobias Bender was a lawyer at Graf von Westphalen, a leading German law firm in international trade law located in Hamburg from 2007 to 2009. Since September 2009, he is a judge at the Administrative Court in Hamburg. He studied law at the University of Hamburg (1997-2001) with a scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst - the scholarship program for talented students of the Protestant Church in Germany. From 2001 to 2005, Dr. Bender worked as a research and teaching assistant for Professor Dr. M. Hilf at University of Hamburg and at Bucerius Law School. In 2002, he was a research fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law (Georgetown University, Washington). He has been teaching German administrative law and WTO law in Hamburg and throughout China. Dr. Bender publishes on EC trade and customs law and WTO law. He is also a contributor to a German WTO textbook. His doctoral thesis dealt with trade-offs between trade and environmental and consumer protection in WTO law.

Course: Comparative Venture Capital Law

Gerald J. Daigle, Jr. is general counsel to Advantage Capital Partners, a private equity firm that has raised more than $1.6 billion in capital for investment in companies that develop or apply innovative technologies or approaches to products, systems and services, including businesses located in communities that are underserved by traditional sources of risk capital. He is primarily involved in structuring the firm's capital-raising transactions and regulatory compliance and has represented the firm in connection with its investments in numerous portfolio companies.

Mr. Daigle was previously a partner with New Orleans' oldest law firm, Chaffe McCall, where he practiced securities and corporate law for a broad range of clients. Prior to that, he was a certified public accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co.

An honors graduate of Loyola University School of Law, Mr. Daigle was Managing Editor of the Loyola Law Review and a member of its National Moot Court Team.

Course: Strategic Intellectual Property Management

Holger Ernst is full professor of business administration, esp. technology and innovation management at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany. He is a regular visiting professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA. He studied business administration at the University of Kiel, Germany and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He received a degree in business administration (1992), his Ph.D. (1996) and the Habilitation (2001) from the University of Kiel, Germany.

His main research interests lie in the fields of technology and innovation management, new product development and intellectual property management. He has published in leading international journals such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Management Studies, MIT Sloan Management Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Research Policy, Strategic Organization, and others. He has received multiple best dissertation and best paper awards.

He teaches regularly in multiple executive programs, e.g. the Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA Program (since KW02), the Melbourne Business School Executive MBA Program (since start in 2004) and in various WHU and Kellogg Executive Customized Programs (e.g. 3M, Merck, L’Oreal, Süd-Chemie, Sony, Nissan, DuPont, Sony-Ericsson). In 2006, he received the Best Teacher Award for the core course Innovation Management in the WHU Fulltime MBA Program.

Prof. Ernst advises and speaks to corporations worldwide in the area of technology, patent and innovation management.

Course: Foundations of Marketing

Dr. Fassnacht is Professor and Holder of the Otto Beisheim Endowed Chair of Marketing and Commerce, Speaker of the Marketing Group and Scientific Director of the Center for Market-oriented Corporate Management (CMM) of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar/Koblenz. Furthermore, he is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of Henkel Center for Consumer Goods (HCCG) and Scientific Member of the Board of “RUNDSCHAU für den Lebensmittelhandel” and Strategic Advisor for Consumer Goods Manufacturers, Retailers and Service Companies. In his function as Strategic Advisor Dr. Fassnacht transfers latest scientific results into practice. His teaching and scientific research focuses on the fields of Price Management, Retail Marketing, Brand Management as well and Market-Oriented Corporate Management.

From 2003 to 2010 he was the Academic Director of two executive education programs for METRO Group at WHU. From 2007 to 2009, Dr. Fassnacht was Associate Dean of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Furthermore he was academic Director of Marketing and Communications from 2006 to 2009 and Academic Director of the Master of Science Program at WHU from 2006 to 2007.

Prior to his professorship at WHU, Dr. Fassnacht was Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Paderborn. From 1996 till 2001 he worked as Assistant Professor with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christian Homburg both at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and the University of Mannheim which resulted in his habilitation (post-doctoral thesis) at the University of Mannheim in 2002.

During his work as Assistant Professor he was Visiting Scholar at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA. Simultaneously, he worked on a freelance basis as a consultant and director for Management Education at Prof. Homburg & Partner GmbH.

Dr. Fassnacht gained his Ph.D. at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz after working as Research Assistant with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Simon and spending six months as Visiting Scholar at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA. Martin Fassnacht studied business administration at the University of Mannheim.

Course: Drafting of Contracts

James Faulkner has extensive experience of teaching at all levels, with a focus on Legal English over some 15 years. James Faulkner taught at the law faculties of Hamburg and Augsburg, before setting up the foreign language department of Bucerius Law School in 2000. He holds degrees in History, Law, Education, and in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Apart from teaching Bucerius students and running the language department, James Faulkner is responsible for the examination centre at Bucerius for the Cambridge ESOL examination 'International Legal English Certificate' (ILEC). He also teaches regular courses at law firms and legal departments within Germany. His interests encompass legal writing, negotiation and mooting, translation, as well as contract drafting.

Course: International Trade and Investment

Ralf Fendel studied economics at the University of Mainz (Germany) from 1989 through 1994. In 1998 he received his Ph.D. in economics from the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar, Germany). During his Ph.D. studies he was also a scholar at the London School of Economics (UK) and the Georgetown University in Washington, DC (USA). After finishing his Ph.D., he joined the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt (Germany) from 1998 through 2000. From 2001 to 2007, Ralf Fendel was assistant professor of economics at the WHU. Within that period he also served as an interim professor (“Lehrstuhlvertretung”) at the University of Erfurt. He also taught at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt and the University of Konstanz. In 2006, Ralf Fendel finished his “Habilitation” and since summer 2007 he is full professor of economics at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. From 2007 to 2008 he also held a professor position at the European Business School (ebs). He is specialized in monetary economics and international macroeconomics. He has published various research articles in leading international academic journals. He was also visiting researcher at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (USA) and the research department of the Deutsche Bundesbank. His international teaching record extends to the USA, Poland, Vietnam, India, Chile and China.

Courses: Negotiation Workshop I & II, Mechanics of Presentation

Michael Friedman received an A.B. in Economics (magna cum laude) from the University of Southern California and subsequently studied law at the Boalt Hall School of Law on the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Juris Doctor in 1993 and became of a member of the California State Bar in 1994. Mr. Friedman practiced law as a senior attorney and litigator in the San Francisco Bay area with the Contra Costa County Office of the Public Defender. He has lived in Hamburg since 2004 and works as an associate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law where he has assisted with the editing and review of various Institute publications including, most recently, the Encyclopaedia of European Private Law. In addition to having lectured with the Bucerius/WHU MLB program, he has instructed with the Bucerius LLB program and has presented on negotiation for the Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen Vereinigung (German-American Jurists’ Association).

Course: Foundations of Financial Reporting

Rolf Uwe Fülbier is full Professor of International Accounting at the University of Bayreuth, one of the leading German universities in business administration. Before, he was full Professor at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (2005 - 2008), assistant professor at the University of Bochum (1999 - 2004) and PhD-student at the University of Münster (1994 - 1998). He studied business administration at the University of Cologne and worked several years for Deutsche Bank AG in Germany and Indonesia (Jakarta branch). Since 2005 Rolf Uwe Fülbier is an appointed tax consultant (Steuerberater). His field of research covers all aspects of financial accounting, especially international accounting (IFRS, US-GAAP). Moreover, he has been involved in several undergraduate, graduate and executive programs of leading German and European Universities, in various research projects, and also in public and private standard setting initiatives, especially on behalf of the German Accounting Standards Board. He was several times awarded the WHU best teacher award.

Course: International Mergers & Acquisitions

James J. Hanks, Jr. is a partner with the 600-lawyer firm of Venable LLP, with offices in Baltimore, New York, Los Angeles and Washington. He received his A.B. from Princeton University; his LL.B. from the University of Maryland Law School, where he was an editor of the Maryland Law Review; and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School. After receiving his LL.B., he was law clerk to Judge Charles Fahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 

In private practice, Mr. Hanks represents publicly- and privately-held corporations and other entities in a wide variety of general corporate law and governance matters, securities offerings and other capital markets transactions. Mr. Hanks has advised buyers or sellers in more than 250 mergers or acquisitions, including many valued at more than one billion dollars. He has also represented parties in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactions. Mr. Hanks frequently serves as independent counsel to boards of directors and board committees of major U.S. corporations and as an expert witness in connection with capital transactions, stockholder litigation, conflicts of interest and corporate governance issues. Mr. Hanks also advises governments on revision of their corporate and securities laws.

Mr. Hanks is Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell and Northwestern Law Schools, where he has taught courses in securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.  He has also taught classes in corporation law at various law schools in the United States and the Republic of South Africa and at the Institute of Law in Beijing. During the Fall, 2003, he was Commerzbank Visiting Professor of Law at Bucerius Law School, and taught there again in the Fall, 2005 and 2007. Mr. Hanks appears in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America in three categories: Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law.

Course: EU Law II, Graf von Westphalen Brussels Study Trip

Dr. Lothar Harings is a partner in the law firm Graf von Westphalen. He is based in the Hamburg and Brussels offices of the firm. He specializes in EU law with a particular focus on customs law, antidumping-law and other regulatory aspects of international trade as well as EC state-aid law. Dr. Harings regularly represents clients in matters of European law before the national courts and the European Court of Justice. Dr. Harings studied law at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg. At the university of Heidelberg, he worked at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law and graduated as a doctor of laws. Dr. Harings is a member of the board of the European Forum for External Trade, Excise duties and Customs and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Foreign Trade Law. He regularly publishes on EC state aid law, trade and customs law.

Course: Managerial Leadership

Professor Martin Hoegl (Ph.D., Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany; Habilitation, Technical University of Berlin, Germany) holds the Chair of Leadership and Human Resource Management at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Before joining WHU, Professor Hoegl served on the faculties of Washington State University (USA) and Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). Moreover, Martin Hoegl held visiting professorships at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern Univ., USA) and at the National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taiwan), and has given guest lectures at various international universities.

He has conducted research projects with major firms in the US and Europe. His main research interests include leadership and collaboration in organizations, management of R&D personnel, knowledge creation in innovation processes, resource-constrained innovation, the management of geographically dispersed and inter-organizational collaboration, as well as the influence of cross-cultural differences on individual and team behaviors in organizations. He has published in leading international journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Decision Sciences, Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, Organization Science, Research Policy, and others.

Professor Hoegl has received multiple awards for teaching and research, including the Students’ Choice Award for Excellence in Teaching (from Washington State University students) as well as Best Paper Awards at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, the Western Academy of Management, and the International Research Conference of the Product Development and Management Association.

Courses: Introduction to Strategic Management

Thomas Hutzschenreuter is professor and the Chair of Corporate Strategy and Corporate Governance at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar (Germany). He studied business administration at the University of Giessen. He received his first and second doctoral degrees (Habilitation) from the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL). Furthermore, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management and Professor of International Management at Boston University.

Recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award in 2009 for the course Corporate Strategy.

Course: Leadership in Investment Banking

Stefan Jentzsch is Partner at Perella Weinberg Partners in London and he was Chief Executive of Dresdner Kleinwort and a member of Dresdner Bank’s Board of Managing Directors with responsibility for Investment Banking. He joined Dresdner Kleinwort in November 2005, having previously worked at HypoVereinsbank from 2001-2005, where he was a Board Member responsible for Corporate & Investment Banking. In 1987 he joined Goldman Sachs, working in Frankfurt, London and New York in both corporate finance and capital markets roles where he in 1998 became resident Partner. Stefan Jentzsch is a member of the supervisory boards of Premiere AG and Adidas AG. He did his undergraduate studies in business administration and law at the University of Cologne and his MBA at the University of St Gallen.

Courses: Business Entities, Legal Aspects of Corporate Governance, Law Prep Course

Dr. Carsten Jungmann is Program Director at Bucerius Law School and coordinates the Diploma in Business Law Program at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. His primary fields of research are insolvency law, corporate law (including corporate governance), commercial law, banking law and corporate finance. He studied law at the University of Bonn and at the University of Edinburgh. At the University of Bonn, he worked at the Institute for Commercial and Business Law and graduated as a Doctor of Laws. Whilst a trainee solicitor, he worked inter alia with the international law firm Hogan Lovells and with HSH Nordbank; he also clerked for High Court Chief Judge Dr. Buechel. After passing the bar exam at the High Court of Hamburg, he went to the US and obtained an LL.M. from Yale Law School. In addition, Carsten Jungmann holds a Master of Science in Finance, which he obtained from the University of Leicester. He spent a year as an academic visitor at the London School of Economics and was a lecturer in law at the University of Surrey, the University of Fribourg and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. He has published numerous articles on corporate, banking and insolvency law in leading law journals. In 2011, he was awarded the Bucerius Alumni Prize for Outstanding Teaching.

Recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award in 2009 for the course and in 2010 for the course .

Course: Strategic Sourcing and Logistics

Lutz Kaufmann is professor and chair of International Business & Supply Management at WHU and an Associate Fellow of Said Business School at the University of Oxford, UK. He is also the academic head of WHU’s tailored and open Executive Development Programs. From WHU’s side, Lutz Kaufmann was the academic director of WHU‘s and Oxford‘s executive programs for the German DAX company MAN which in 2010 won the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award for the best customized executive program in Europe. This was the first such award for a German business school.

Professor Kaufmann’s activities bring him in touch with executives from around the world. From 2003 to 2008, Lutz Kaufmann served as the Vice Chairman of the supervisory board of the German automotive supplier Veritas AG. In the 90s, he worked several years with General Motors Europe and the consulting company Horváth & Partners. He also co-founded the home health care provider Medina Services GmbH.

Lutz Kaufmann has also published more than 100 case studies on strategy and purchasing with the European Case Clearing House (ECCH) in Cranfield; one of these won the EFMD 2006 Case Writing Competition. His research has been highlighted in numerous popular media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times (ftd), WirtschaftsWoche, and ManagerMagazin. Together with Bain & Company and FTD he annually awards the prestigious Strategist of the Year Award to the most successful CEOs of publicly listed German companies.

During the last decade, Lutz Kaufmann’s PhD students have won numerous national and international research awards. Three of them have won an Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award since 2008, two in 2009 alone, having made WHU the first institution to win such an award in two categories in the same year. Since 2008/vol. 44, Lutz Kaufmann is the European Editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM), and in that role he helps to shape the future research agenda of that field.

Course: Comparative Law

Adem Koyuncu is double qualified as lawyer and medical doctor. He is a Partner in the Cologne office of the 1800-lawyer firm of Mayer Brown LLP where he focuses his practice on advising companies in the life sciences and pharma industry. He has extensive experience in acting for national and international corporations in cross-jurisdictional matters including cross-border transactions and contract negotiations. His litigation practice includes product liability, unfair competition and regulatory matters.

Prior to joining the law firm, Adem Koyuncu worked for several years in the pharmaceutical industry and practiced as a medical doctor at a German University hospital. He is a frequent lecturer at legal conferences and seminars and extensively publishes in the field of tort law, medical law and comparative law. Among others, he is co-author of the comparative law book "Practical Global Tort Litigation". Further professional activities include serving as member of the editorial boards of several national and international legal journals. He is fluent in German, Turkish and English and speaks conversational Spanish.

For his practical and scientific work, Adem Koyuncu received the awards "Wissenschaftspreis im Gesundheitswesen" (2005) and the "Deutscher Arzt Recht Preis" (2008) which are both law awards in the field of health and medical law.

Course: Commercial Instruments

Thomas Krebs read English and German law at the University of Kent at Canterbury, before going to Oxford to study for the postgraduate degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. He stayed at Oxford to complete a DPhil under Peter Birks, before then qualifying as a barrister. In 1999, he was invited to join the Law Faculty of University College London, where he spent four years as the Norton Rose Lecturer in Commercial Law. Since 2003, he has been the University Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He continues to practice at the English Commercial Bar and is a member of a Chancery/Commercial Set of Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn. He spent the academic year 2007/08 as Hauser Global Law Fellow at New York University.

Courses: International Sale of Goods, International Litigation I & II

Stefan Kröll is a lawyer in Cologne and Habilitand at Cologne University. He is one of the German national correspondents to UNCITRAL for arbitration and international commercial law and a Visiting Reader at the School of International Arbitration, CCLS – Queen Mary University London. Admitted to the bar in 1997, he specializes in international commercial law and dispute resolution and sits regularly as an arbitrator in national and international cases (ICC, DIS, WKO, ad-hoc). He is member of the board of editors of the International Arbitration Law Review and the IHR (Internationales Handelsrecht – International Commercial Law). Dr. Kröll lectures regularly on international contract law, conflict of laws and dispute resolution inter alia for the University of California (Davis), the School of Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (Queen Mary, University of London), and the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (IRZ). He is the author of numerous books and articles in the areas of national and international business law.

Course: European Capital Markets Law

Dr. Jens Kuhlmann is a lawyer at Flick Gocke Schaumburg in Berlin. In his practice he is mostly concerned with corporate law, M&A work and capital markets issues. His main interest is on the law of groups of companies (Konzernrecht) on which he has published a student text book together with Dr. Erik Ahnis (Konzern- und Umwandlungsrecht). Born in 1972, Dr. Kuhlmann worked with Aral AG and E.ON Energie AG before fully qualifying as a lawyer in 2004. He received his legal education in Berlin and Belfast and gained his PhD in 2004. Dr. Kuhlmann has practiced in London, Düsseldorf and Berlin.

Course: International Tax Law

Florian Lechner is a tax partner of Linklaters LLP in Frankfurt. He completed his law studies at the University of Munich in 1998. He started to work at Oppenhoff & Rädler (now Linklaters) in Munich and moved to the Frankfurt office in 2003. In 2004, he worked for an international investment bank during a secondment. He has specialized experience in structuring of national and international mergers and acquisitions, tax oriented restructuring, acquisition financing and financial products.

Florian Lechner is a frequent lecturer at tax seminar, publishes articles in well-known tax journals and contributes to books regarding German taxation, e.g. “Die Unternehmensteuerreform 2008” published by C.H. Beck in 2007. 

Course: Corporate Restructuring Strategy

Marc-Olivier Lücke is a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where he is a member of the Corporate Development Practice and of the Corporate Finance Task Force. In that role, he advises companies on a range of issues including corporate strategy, financial planning, mergers & acquisitions, and restructuring. Previously, he worked for Barclays Capital in London in the Global Financing division, where he executed numerous debt transactions for European corporates, including a number of cross-border restructurings.

Dr. Lücke received his Diplom-Kaufmann and Doctoral degree from the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. His doctoral thesis dealt with the influence of international bankruptcy codes on the valuation of distressed firms' securities. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder and a member of the Turnaround Management Association.

Course: Admiralty and Air Transport

Dr. Volker Lücke LL.M. is a lawyer at Ince & Co, a leading international law firm specializing in shipping law. Volker has been with Ince & Co’s Hamburg office since 2006. He studied law at the University of Münster, and in 2002 he completed a Master in Shipping Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Volker has been teaching Shipping Law at the Hamburg School of Shipping and Transport, and is also a regular lecturer at the IFLOS Summer Academy which takes place at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. Volker is teaching International Shipping Law in the Bucerius Law School graduate program.

Course: Wealth Management

Andreas E. Meier is Head of the UBS Wealth Management Latin America Unit in Hamburg and Member of the Executive Board. Prior to this position, he was Head of the Business Sector Latin America South at UBS in Zurich where he stayed from 2006 to 2009. From 2002 to 2006 he was part of the UBS Wealth Management Latin America team in Hamburg where he held various positions. Mr. Meier started his career at Dresdner Bank in Hamburg in 1994 as a client advisor for Latin American clients. Mr. Meier holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg.

Course: Business Ethics, Master's Thesis Preparation Course

Matthias Meyer is full professor for Management Control and Accounting at the Hamburg University of Technology. Before he was associate and assistant professor for Management Accounting at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar. He holds a Habilitation degree (Dr. oec. publ. habil.) from WHU and a PhD (Dr. oec. publ.) in Business Economics from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where he worked at the Chair of Philosophy and Economics. The topic of his dissertation was the principal agent model. He received his Diplom-Kaufmann in Business Administration from Eichstaett Catholic University and a Master of Science in the Philosophy of Social Sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2006 Matthias Meyer stayed as visiting scholar at the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. His practical background in Management Accounting is his former position as the Managing Director of the Center for Controlling & Management at WHU where companies like DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Telekom or Deutsche Lufthansa work together with researchers on management accounting topics. He has teaching experience in management accounting, cost accounting, corporate planning and strategic decision making, economic methodology and business ethics.

Course: European Capital Markets Law

Dr. Martin Oltmanns is partner at Flick Gocke Schaumburg in Berlin. His practice focuses on all aspects of corporate finance and M&A work. Dr. Oltmanns regularly advises companies in public take-overs, in the issuance of securities and with regard to their disclosure obligations. Born in 1968, Dr. Oltmanns has received his legal education at the University of Bonn (JD 1991, PhD 2001) and at the University of Chicago (LL.M. 1992). Dr. Oltmanns has practiced in New York, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin.

Course: Restructuring & Insolvency

Dr. Sven Prüfer, a German Rechtsanwalt, is a partner at Allen & Overy LLP and based in Frankfurt am Main. Being a member of Allen & Overy's corporate law team he advises regularly corporations, investors and banks on national and international M&A transactions, restructurings and issues under German corporate law.

Course: Foundations of Cost Accounting, Structured Problem Solving

Utz Schäffer is a full professor of management accounting and control at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar.

After completing his military service and a traineeship at the Dresdner Bank AG, he studied business administration at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, as well as at the EM Lyon and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago. In 1996, he received his doctorate at the Chair of Controlling and Telecommunications of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and in 2001 qualified as a university professor at the same school.

In 2002 he accepted the Chair of Business Administration, particularly management accounting and control at the European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel, where he also held the academic position as associate dean for research as well as the chairmanship of the doctoral committee. In 2007, Utz Schäffer returned to the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management as professor of management accounting and control where in 2008, he established the Institute of Management Accounting and Control (IMC) together with Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Jürgen Weber.

Utz Schäffer is the author of numerous contributions to scientific and practice-oriented journals and acts as a reviewer for many of them. He is co-author of the leading textbook “Einführung in das Controlling” and edits the journals “Zeitschrift für Controlling & Management (ZfCM)” as well as “Journal of Management Control” (JoMAC). His primary research areas are management accounting change and CFO research.

In addition to his academic career, Utz Schäffer gained practical experience while working with CTcon Vallendar and Düsseldorf as well as with McKinsey & Company, Munich.

Recipient of the MLB Best Teacher Award in 2010 for the course .

Course: International Taxation

Deborah Schanz is professor of taxation and accounting at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München since July 2011.

Deborah Schanz completed her business studies in Hamburg, Newcastle (England) and Tübingen focusing on taxation, management accounting and control and international accounting. In 2004 she finished her doctorate at the University of Tübingen. She completed her “Habilitation” in 2007 at the University of Graz (Austria) on the topic “Auswirkungen der Besteuerung auf Investitionsentscheidungen”. From 2007 until 2011 she was professor for taxation and accounting at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Prior to her studies she gained practical experience as a management consultant with Deloitte in Stuttgart.

Deborah Schanz publishes articles in different well-known refereed journals (zfbf, ZfB, DBW, RMS, European Accounting Review) as well as in practical journals. She received several awards for her publications including the Monograph Prize from the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) in 2006. Her areas of research comprise the influence of taxation on investment and financing decision-making, tax accounting and international taxation.

Course: Business Entities

Karsten Schmidt is President of the Bucerius Law School.
A doctorate in 1972 was followed in 1975/76 by a post-doctorate in Bonn in the subjects of civil law, commercial law, business law and civil procedural law.
Following a professorship in Göttingen (1976) he held a professorial chair at the University of Hamburg from 1977 to 1997 and was Director of the Departments of Commercial, Maritime and Economic Law. From 1997 to 2005 Karsten Schmidt was professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Institute for Commercial and Business Law.

He is a member of the Joachim Jungius Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Hamburg, and the Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea, Salzburg, as well as Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London. He is a corresponding member of the Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, Cordoba/Argentina and serves as a member of the academic board of the Institut für Wirtschaftsverfassung und Wettbewerb (FIW), Cologne.

Professor Schmidt served as vice-chairman and chairman of the Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung from 1987 to 1999 and was an assessor for the German Research Association from 1988 to 1996. He sits on the supervisory board and the Kuratorium of the Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius ZEIT Foundation, Hamburg. He is publisher and editor of the Zeitschrift für das gesamte Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht, joint publisher of the Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP), as well as sitting on the editorial board of the International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal. He has written textbooks on commercial and company law, as well as monographs, commentaries and numerous academic articles.

Course: Strategic Sourcing and Logistics

Prof. Dr. Stefan Spinler is Professor in Logistics Management at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Prof. Spinler holds the Kühne Foundation endowed Chair in Logistics Management at WHU. In 1997, he received a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany. Upon graduation, he was responsible for process coordination in DRAM manufacturing at Infineon Technologies in Dresden. In 2002, he received a doctorate in Operations Management from the WHU. Subsequently, he was a lecturer with the Operations Management department at the Wharton School. He is a regular visiting professor in Wharton’s Executive Master’s of Technology Management and in MIT’s Engineering Systems and Design program.

Prof. Spinler’s research interests include sustainability in supply chains where he is currently involved in a project with colleagues from INSEAD to reduce CO2 emissions in the postal delivery. He is moreover interested in supply chain risk management where he collaborates with major consumer goods and automotive companies. He has published in leading international academic journals, e.g., EJOR, OR Spectrum, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. In 2003, he was awarded the Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize from the European Associations of Operational Research Societies / EURO and the best dissertation award from GOR, the German Operations Research Society.

Course: Patent and Licensing Law

Christian Stoll is partner at the law firm Hogan Lovells in Hamburg. He is active in Intellectual Property Law. Mr. Stoll has extensive experience in intellectual property litigation, with particular focus on patent litigation, and in the licensing of intellectual property and technology. He advises and represents multiple international companies that are active in the fields of engineering, telecommunications, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and nutrition in the area of patent law and IP licensing. Christian Stoll studied law at the University of Hamburg and Notre Dame University. He frequently holds seminars on patent litigation and IP licensing.

Course: Corporate Finance

Mei Wang is Professor of Finance at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, where she holds the Chair of Behavioral Finance. She received her Ph.D. degree at the Carnegie Mellon University, U.S. in 2003. Before joining WHU, she was assistant Professor of Finance and Financial Markets at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and head of the Behavioral Finance group of the University Research Priority Program. She has also worked as researcher at the University of Mannheim, Germany, and the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Her main research interests are behavioral and experimental finance, cross-cultural comparisons and decision theory. She has published in academic journals such as Economic Theory, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Risk Analysis, International Journal of Bank Marketing, and others. She also contributed to a number of books in the fields of banking and derivatives.

Courses: Foundations of Microeconomics, Industrial Economics

Jürgen Weigand is Professor of Economics at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Microeconomics and Industrial Organization. Professor Weigand received masters, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees in Economics from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He joined the WHU in 2000. Before joining WHU, he held positions as Assistant Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, as research scholar at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, and as research fellow at the Institute for Development Strategies in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Professor Weigand also worked as a senior researcher for the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague.

Course: Legal Ethics

Kathleen Wilson is the Principal of Wilson Shaw, a law firm based in the City of London regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Ms Wilson has spent almost 30 years in private legal practice, specialising in commercial litigation, international arbitration and regulatory investigations. 

Ms Wilson graduated with an LLB (Hons.) from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and is a solicitor admitted to practice both in England & Wales and in Scotland and an attorney at law admitted to the New York Bar. Ms Wilson is also an arbitrator on the international panel of neutrals for the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) part of the American Arbitration Association, and has been either a member or Chair of the Tribunal on several occasions. 

Ms Wilson has represented a wide variety of corporate entities, financial institutions and some high net worth individuals in high value complex commercial disputes in the English, Scottish and some US courts (Federal and State) and in international and domestic arbitration under the rules of the ICC, AAA, LCIA or ad hoc. Such cases have involved shareholder disputes; partnership disputes; breach of M & A warranties; claims of misrepresentation and fraud; claims of breach of commercial contracts; claims of professional negligence; claims involving allegations of money laundering; investigations by financial regulators enquiring in to transactions or conduct involving the financial services industry; investigations and prosecutions by the health and safety regulator following serious injury or a fatality on a worksite.

Ms Wilson has spent most of her career working in the City of London, initially as an associate with Allen & Overy LLP, then as a partner for 12 years with Speechly Bircham LLP. She also spent 4 years working in New York as an associate attorney with White & Case LLP. Latterly Ms Wilson was a partner with the London office of Michelmores LLP, where she set up and headed the commercial contentious practice before leaving to set up the law practice of Wilson Shaw.

Course: EU Law I

Christopher Whelan is Associate Director of International Programmes at the University of Oxford. Before that he was a Senior Research Officer at the University of Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Warwick. He has visited and taught at the Universities of California at Berkeley, Texas at Austin, South Carolina and Ohio State. In 2005, he was Scholar-in-Residence at Washington & Lee University School of Law; from 2006 to date he has been a Visiting Professor at W&L each spring semester. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics (LL.B and Ph.D.). 

Course: General Management

Peter Witt is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Wuppertal. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Bonn. In 1992, he became a research and teaching assistant at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management - where he obtained his Ph.D degree in business administration in 1996. He moved on to Humboldt University in Berlin to become assistant professor for business administration. He received his habilitation degree at Humboldt University in 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he served as the Otto Beisheim Professor of Entrepreneurship at WHU, from 2006 to 2010 he was the director of the chair for Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Dortmund

Professor Witt received the best teacher award in WHU’s diploma program in 1996 and the best teacher award in the Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA program in 2003.

Case Studies in Finance

Burcin Yurtoglu (Ph.D. University of Vienna, Austria; Habilitation, University of Vienna, Austria) is Professor at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, where he holds the Chair of Corporate Finance.  Before joining the WHU, Prof. Yurtoglu served on the faculty of the University of Vienna University, Department of Economics.  During his academic career, he was a visiting scholar at the Cambridge University (Judge Business School), Science Center Berlin (WZB) and Central European University (Budapest).  He has conducted research and consulting projects with major companies, regulatory agencies, research centers in Austria, Turkey and at the IFC, the World Bank.

His research interests include corporate governance, corporate finance and competition policy with a focus on emerging markets.  He has published in international journals including the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Law and Economics and many others.