Shifting the Perception – Solutions to Combating Inequality
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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German and English languageIndividual inequalities tend only to be tackled expediently and sustainably if profit can be foreseen. What unexpected strengths can be generated by an inclusive business philosophy and how can businesses profit? Are there any outstanding examples?
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Thorkil SONNE
Founder and Chairman of the Board, Specialist People Foundation, Ballerup
| 2001-2004 | CTO, MigWAY, Copenhagen, DK |
| since 2004 | Chairman, Specialisterne, DK |
| since 2009 | Chairman, Specialist People Foundation |
| since 2013 | CEO, Specialisterne, USA |
Dr. Andreas BIERWIRTH
Chief Executive Officer, Magenta Telekom, Vienna
| 2002-2006 | Managing Director, Germanwings GmbH, Cologne |
| 2006-2008 | Vice President Marketing, Lufthansa AG, Munich |
| 2008-2012 | Board Member, Austrian Airlines AG, Vienna |
| since 2012 | Chief Executive Officer, Magenta Telekom, Vienna |
Willibald CERNKO
Chief Risk Officer, Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna
| 1983-1985 | Account Executive, Raiffeisenbank, Obdach-Weißenkirchen |
| 1985-1996 | Corporate Banking Division, Creditanstalt AG, Vienna |
| 1996-1998 | Deputy Head, Corporate Banking Division, Creditanstalt AG, Vienna |
| 1998-2000 | Head, Corporate Banking Division, Creditanstalt AG, Vienna |
| 2002-2003 | Head, CEE Division, Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG, Vienna |
| 2003-2007 | Member, Management Board, Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG, Vienna |
| 2006-2009 | Member, Management Board, HVB AG, Munich |
| 2008-2009 | Head, Retail Germany and Austria Division with the Group Title of Executive Vice President, UniCredit, Vienna |
| since 2009 | Country Chairman Austria and Member of the Management Committee with Title of Senior Executive Vice President, UniCredit S.p.A., Milan |
| Chairman, Management Board, UniCredit Bank Austria AG, Vienna |
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Edeltraud HANAPPI-EGGER
Jean Monnet Chair, Gendered Inequality and Classism in Europe; Rector, WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna
| 1982-1987 | Academic Studies, Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna |
| 1987 | Master, Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna |
| 1988 | Guest Researcher, Stockholm University, Stockholm |
| 1988-1999 | Lecturer, Summer University "informatica feminale", University of Bremen |
| 1990 | PhD, Technical Sciences, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna |
| Guest Researcher, Institute of Computer Science Research, University of Toronto | |
| 1991 | Junior Researcher, "Computer-Supported Decision Systems", Institute of Design & Assessment of Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna |
| 1992 | Guest Researcher, Work Research Institute, Oslo |
| 1992-1993 | Assistant Professor, Institute of Design & Assessment of Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna |
| 1993-1996 | Scholar, ÖAW - Austrian Academy of Sciences, awarded with the APART-scholarship (Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology) |
| 1996 | Venia Docendi, Applied Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna |
| Associate Professor, Applied Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna | |
| 2001 | Guest Researcher, Center of Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld |
| 2002-2004 | Guest Professor and Head of Department, Gender and Diversity in Organizations, WU Vienna University for Economics and Business, Vienna |
| 2004 | Full Professor, Gender and Diversity in Organizations, WU Vienna University for Economics and Business, Vienna |
| 2011 | Senior Research Fellow, London School of Economics, London |
| 2014 | Visiting Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal |
Mag. Christian KERN
Chancellor, Republic of Austria, Vienna
| Christian Kern was sworn in as Austria's Federal Chancellor on 17th May 2016. After working as a journalist and in the Austrian Parliament and Federal Chancellery, Mr. Kern launched a career in the energy sector in 1997. At Verbund AG, Austria's largest energy utility, he was appointed to the group's management board in 2007. He then switched to the Austrian Federal Railways Group, where he served as Chairman of the Management Board from 2010 onward. In this capacity, he also became Chairman of the Brussels-based Community of European Railways (CER) in 2014. Under Mr. Kern's leadership, the Austrian Federal Railways investigated the railway operator's role during the Nazi era in a project entitled "Suppressed Years". Mr. Kern was born in Vienna on 4th January 1966, and he graduated from an academic secondary school in Vienna's 11th district (Simmering). He then went on to study sociology, political science and communications at the University of Vienna. |
Mag.a Marie RINGLER
Europe Co-Director, Ashoka, Vienna
| 1998-2000 | General Manager, Public Netbase t0 - Institute for New Culture Technologies, Vienna |
| 2001-2010 | Elected Member, Vienna Federal State Parliament and Vienna City Council (Landtagsabgeordnete und Gemeinderätin), The Greens, Vienna |
| 2004 | Consultant, National Democratic Institute, Kathmandu |
| 2008-2010 | Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of St.Gallen |
| since 2011 | Country Director, Ashoka Austria & CEE, Vienna |
| since 2012 | Regional Director Ashoka Central and Eastern Europe |
| since 2015 | Co-Director Ashoka Europe |
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