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 – with an increasing but not exclusive focus on the financial and technological industry.

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 banks, pension funds, other companies and foundations Dorothea Baur has been involved in various projects on ESG (sustainable investment), CSR, stakeholder management, sustainable value chains, 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 a ForHumanity fellow, an organization dedicated to developing audits for contact tracing, and associate at the Institute for Social Banking. From May 2017 until May 2020, she was the independent ethics officer of Alternative Bank Switzerland. She previously held a position on the boards of Ethos Académie and of BUCHI Foundation. She teaches at different universities.

More about my experience and qualifications can be found here.