Claus Dierksmeier
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Claus Dierksmeier (born May 17, 1971, in Pforzheim) is a German philosopher. He holds a chair for globalization ethics at the University of Tübingen and works as a strategic consultant in politics and business.
After finishing his dissertation at the University of Hamburg in 1997, Dierksmeier obtained a Dr. phil. habil. degree from the University of Jena in 2002. In 2001 and 2002 he was a visiting scholar at various universities in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina before becoming an associate professor at the Institute for Philosophy at Stonehill College, Boston, where he was subsequently a full professor and "Distinguished Professor of Globalization Ethics" since 2011. In the same year he was appointed as Research Director of the Sustainable Management and Measurement Institute (SUMMIT) at Stonehill College. From 2012 to 2018 he was the academic director of the Weltethos-Institut (Global Ethic Institute) at the University of Tübingen before taking on a chair for globalization ethics at the university's Institute for Political Science.[1]
Dierksmeier is a board member of the international think tank The Humanistic Management Network and Academic Director of the Humanistic Management Center. He is a member of the research group Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development summoned by Jeffrey Sachs on part of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and he works on the advisory councils of various academic journals and political foundations. In March 2018 he was appointed as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. As a strategic consultant he has worked, among other things, for the Bruce Henderson Institute of the Boston Consulting Group.[2]
