Gudrun Sander

Gudrun Sander is a Professor of Business Administration with a special emphasis on Diversity Management and a Senior Lecturer. She completed her PhD (Dr. oec. HSG) at the University of St. Gallen in 1997. For her dissertation she received the recognition award of the Swiss Society for Organisation and Management (SGO) in 1998. Gudrun Sander is Director of the Competence Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) and Director of the Research Institute for International Management (FIM) at the University of St. Gallen. For three decades, she has been committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in research, practice, teaching and further education. Among other things, she initiated the St. Gallen Diversity Benchmarking and the Gender Intelligence Report, launched the management training „Women Back to Business“, is an expert in salary analysis and sees her strength at the interface between research and practice. She is a sought-after speaker in executive education and especially for company-specific workshops and trainings on topics such as Unconscious Bias, Diversity & Inclusion, Strategic Management and Leadership.

She is a member of the Women’s Empowerment Principles Leadership Group (WEPs LG) of UN Women and UN Global Compact as well as of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Working Group for Gender Equality.

Education

• Master in business administration Johannes Kepler University, Linz/Austria (1988)

• PhD University of St. Gallen (1997)

• Diploma in financial and management accounting, St. Galler Management & Business School SBS (2001)

• Continuing education in university-level teaching (2007)

• Advanced Management Program AMP-HSG (2013)

Professional Experience

• Director for Diversity and Management Programs at the ES-HSG and program director for "Women Back to Business" (diploma programme)

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

• Director Competence Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI-FIM) at the Research Institute for International Management of the University of St. Gallen (FIM-HSG)

• Senior lecturer in strategic management, organization, leadership and accounting as well as diversity management at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences

• Director of the Swiss National Project "Controlling of equal opportunity processes/diversity controlling"

• Lectures, workshops, project management and inhouse-training in the areas of strategic management and leadership in non-profit-organizations, diversity competences as a leadership task

• Publications on diversity management and strategic management

• Board member and member of the financial committee of OBVITA

Expert function

• Member of Women's Empowerment Principles Leadership Group (WEPs LG) of UN Women and UN Global Compact

• Member of Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Working Group on Gender Equality

• Consultant for the Federal Office for Gender Equality