Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schwenker
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schwenker (born in Germany in 1958) is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. Prior to taking over this position from the company's founder, Prof. Dr. h.c. Roland Berger on August 1, 2010, he had been a member of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants' global Executive Committee since November 1998, and was elected CEO in 2003. As of February 2012, Burkhard Schwenker was also appointed Chairman of the Roland Berger School of Strategy and Economics (RBSE).
After studying business administration (Dipl. Kfm.) and mathematics, he started his career at PWA Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg AG and completed his Ph.D. He joined Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in 1989 and was elected Partner in 1992. He is an expert in strategy, organization and corporate transformation. Burkhard Schwenker is a regular and acknowledged author in the field of leadership, strategy and management, in particular on issues concerning European Management thought leadership.
Burkhard Schwenker lectures at and sits on the boards of several business schools and universities, and was appointed professor of strategic management at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL). In addition, he is a member of the Executive Board of the Foundation for the Advancement of European Business School and the Board of Trustees at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg. Burkhard Schwenker is also Visiting Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
In addition to his professional and academic work, Burkhard Schwenker takes an active role in several sociopolitical institutions. He was appointed Chairman of the Roland Berger Foundation's Board of Trustees as of September 1, 2010. This Foundation confers the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award every year and provides scholarships to young students from underprivileged backgrounds. He is Deputy Chairman of Atlantik Brücke e.V. and sits on the Boards of Trustees of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Values Commission (Wertekommission e.V.). He is a member of the Senate of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering and the Stifterverband innovation agency for the German science system. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and member of the Executive Committee of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB).
Burkhard Schwenker is married, has three children and lives in Hamburg.
