Longstanding Experience and Excellent Qualifications

Dr. Dorothea Baur, founder and owner of Baur Consulting AG, is an expert with many years of international and interdisciplinary experience in ethics, responsibility, and sustainability.

Dorothea Baur studied business administration and International Relations in Zurich (CH), Leuven (BE) and St. Gallen (CH) before earning her PhD on NGO-business partnerships at the University of St. Gallen. After that she was active in teaching and research at other leading European business schools (e.g. ESADE Barcelona and Nottingham University Business School).

On behalf of companies and foundations Dorothea Baur has been involved in various projects on CSR reporting, sustainable value chains, Socially Responsible Investment, Social Enterprises and Sustainable Development.

In 2015 she published The Corporate Social Responsibility Story of Chiquita, a comprehensive practitioner-oriented assessment of the social and environmental challenges of one of the world’s biggest banana traders.

As a member of the Guilé Engagement Team she has conducted engagement dialogs with numerous publicly owned companies from different industries and countries about the quality of their CSR or sustainability reporting.

Dorothea Baur is the independent ethics officer of Alternative Bank Switzerland, as well as associate at the Institute for Social Banking, a member of the board of Ethos Académie and of BUCHI Foundation. She teaches at different universities.

More about my experience and qualifications can be found here.