HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management has named Christian Strenger Honorary Professor. During the ceremony, Dean Dr. Andreas Pinkwart presented the internationally renowned corporate governance expert with the letter of appointment. “Christian Strenger – who was named Mister Corporate Governance by the Handelsblatt business journal – understands perfectly how to combine theoretical knowledge with impetus from the practice. With these characteristics, he lives up to HHL’s standards regarding academic rigor and the practical relationships in research, teaching and knowledge transfer,” says the HHL Dean. Christian Strenger has served as Academic Director of the Center for Corporate Governance at HHL since 2010. The trained banker, who also holds a university degree in business administration, is a member of multiple Supervisory Boards (Deutsche AWM Investment GmbH and TUI AG, amongst others) and the German Corporate Governance Code Commission. In June 2014, Christian Strenger received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the globally leading International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) for his lasting commitment to good corporate governance.
Watch an interview with Prof. Strenger here: http://youtu.be/t8Q9qQ3BF_U
The Center for Corporate Governance (CCG) at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management was founded in April 2010. The research work focuses, among other things, on the topics of corporate governance and company performance, governance ratings, diversity and corporate governance in emerging economies. The institution is led by a team of Academic Directors with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marc Steffen Rapp (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Prof. Christian Strenger and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff (University of Göttingen). The CCG cooperates with numerous governance units from international universities and the Global Governance Knowledge Group of IFC/World Bank. http://www.hhl.de/ccg
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management is a university-level institution and ranks amongst the leading international business schools. The goal of the oldest business school in German-speaking Europe is to educate effective, responsible and entrepreneurially-minded leaders. HHL stands out for its excellent teaching, its clear research focus, its effective knowledge transfer into practice as well as its outstanding student services. The courses of study include full and part-time Master in Management as well as MBA programs, a Doctoral program and Executive Education. In the 2013 Financial Times Masters in Management Ranking, HHL’s full-time M.Sc. Program was ranked 9th in the world. The international media outlet awarded HHL 1st place internationally for its ‘Entrepreneurship’ focus. In late 2013, Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Founder’s Association for German Science) honored HHL as one of the leading entrepreneurial universities in Germany. HHL is accredited by AACSB International. http://www.hhl.de
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