Christine Katharina Volkmann (born 1960 in
Giessen
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) is a German
Economist and holds the
UNESCO Chair for Entrepreneurship and Intercultural Management at the
Schumpeter School of Business and Economics of the
University of Wuppertal
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The university's official name in German is ''Bergische Universität Wuppertal'' ...
.
Career
From 1981 to 1986 Christine Volkmann studied Business Administration at the
University of Giessen, where she also worked as an assistant to the German economist . She earned her doctorate in strategic business planning in 1989, while working as a research assistant at
Lufthansa
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on the privatisation of the aviation market in Europe. Afterwards, she joined
Deutsche Bank and held several leadership positions until 1999. In 1999 she became a professor at the in
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen (, , ; wep, Gelsenkiärken) is the 25th most populous city of Germany and the 11th most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher River (a tributary of the Rhine), it lies ...
and is a UNESCO Chairholder for Entrepreneurship and Intercultural Management since 2005. In 2008 she received a call to the
Schumpeter School of Business and Economics at the University of Wuppertal.
Christine Volkmann is a director of the German Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovations Research (IGIF) and co-founded the foundation of the interdisciplinary Jackstädt Research Center for Entrepreneurship funded by the
Jackstädt Foundation. Moreover, since 2005 she is a visiting professor at the
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
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, where she teaches graduate courses in leadership and innovation management and in 2015 at the
University of Graz. Moreover, she served as an advisor to the
European Commission, the president of the
European Economic and Social Committee as well as the
World Economic Forum in
Davos
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and the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research (EFER) alongside
Bert Twaalfhoven. In 2018 she became a member of the
State Council on the Digitization of the Economy of the government of
North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2015 she serves as a member of the selection committee of the
German Entrepreneur of the Year.
Personal life
She was formerly married to
Walter Kohl
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and was the daughter-in-law of former German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl; they have a son, Johannes.
References
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Academic staff of the University of Wuppertal
Kohl family
1960 births
Living people