I am Senior Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Department Business Studies, specializing in International Sustainable Business, Digitalization, and Innovation Ecosystems.

I have broad international cross-sector experience as an entrepreneur, business and policy advisor, and university lecturer focusing on entrepreneurship, digitalization, systemic innovation and systems design addressing sustainable development.

I have taught as part-time visiting lecturer at several Universities and in professional management training programs in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Italy, France, Belgium, Norway, Finland, UK, Australia, Vietnam, Taiwan, China and the USA.

Since 2026, I serve as Honorary President of the International CSR Dialogue Forum, an independent platform with consultative status at the United Nations ECOSOC, where I engage with business, policy, and academic leaders to advance sustainable development and business practice and mentor the next generation of responsible leaders.

I served the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS) in Vienna as Managing Director. Through the BCSSS, I established the Circular Economy Forum Austria, the largest multi-stakeholder platform to support the transformation to a circular economy in Austria.

From 2016 to 2018 I was appointed as Special Adviser to the European Commissioner for Transport.

I have served as Vice President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and Secretary General and Vice President of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR), the largest global umbrella organization of systems research organizations in the natural, social, and technological sciences, as well as systems engineering.

My current work focuses on on value creation, systems design and systemic innovation for the twin challenge of a regenerative and digital economy towards the so-called Next Economy, especially the Circular Economy.