Annette Krauss

Dr. rer. oec. Annette Krauss the Director for Teaching and Member of the Management Board of the CSP. She is responsible for developing the for-credit consecutive and executive teaching on sustainable finance at the Department, in particular in the Master program. Before returning to academia in 2007, Annette worked nine years as a microfinance specialist in development agencies in Germany and at the United Nations. She was mainly engaged with partners in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. Back in academia, Annette founded the Center for Microfinance at the University of Zurich in 2009, that bacame a founding partner of the CSP in 2017.

Education

• Diploma in Economics, University of Trier, Germany, 1995
• Ph.D. in Economics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 1999
• Exchange student, Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, France, 1991-1992
• Research fellow at University of California at Berkeley, USA, 1994-1995

Professional experience

• Program Manager, North-South Dialogue/Exposure-and Dialogue Programme, Bonn, Germany, 1998-2000
• Training Manager, United Nations Capital Development Fund, New York, 2000-2005
• Senior Lecturer, Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, USA, 2007-2009
• Founder and Managing Director, University of Zurich, Department for Banking and Finance / Center for Microfinance 2009-2017
• Co-founder, Management Team Member and Director of Teaching, University of Zurich, Department for Banking and Finance / Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth

Research interests

• Microfinance / financial inclusion financial sector development in developing economies
• Social entrepreneurship and development investments in developing countries
• Sustainable banking, sustainable and impact investing

Teaching

• Microfinance / financial inclusion
• Social entrepreneurship
• Sustainable finance, sustainable investing
• Studiengangsleitung