Klaus Schweinsberg is Affiliate Professor at ESCP Business School and Chairman of the Centre for Strategy and Higher Leadership. He is personal advisor to eminent CEOs and entrepreneurs in Europe and the US and serves as a Military Assistant to the German Chief of Defence. Since 2009, he has been a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Klaus Schweinsberg is the Co-Founder of the European Center for Digital Competitiveness, which aims at inspiring a broad public debate around the opportunities of digital technologies for solving major societal challenges such as the climate crisis and demographic change. The centre also works on educating politicians about future technologies and seeks change in governments’ approaches to digital technologies. The centre publishes important surveys such as the Digital Report and Digital Riser Report, featured by leading media such as Forbes, Le Monde, or Handelsblatt. Professor Schweinsberg is Co-initiator of the French-German Leadership Discourse at ESCP Business School. Klaus is a member of various supervisory boards such as Haufe Group SE, HSBC Deutschland, and Mainau GmbH.
His research and teaching combine the fields of strategy, leadership, and communications. At ESCP Business School, he places emphasis on digital leadership issues. He is author of several books on leadership and governance and is a popular expert in the media such as Financial Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, RTL, or n-tv. He regularly contributes as a columnist to Manager Magazin.
Klaus Schweinsberg earned a PhD in Economics at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) after having studied economics and communication sciences at the Universities of Fribourg, Siena, and St Andrews. He started his career as an editor at Financial Times Germany and Editor-in-Chief of Impulse and Capital business magazines. He is of German and Swiss nationality.