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.

She successfully provides support and gives advice to companies, pension funds, foundations and NGOs on ESG and sustainable finance, technology and data protection, and Corporates Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability. She regularly holds speeches and conducts workshops for different target groups on these topics.

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 their sustainability reporting.

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).

Dorothea Baur is the independent ethics officer of Alternative Bank Switzerland as well as associate at the Institute for Social Banking, and a member of the board of BUCHI Foundation. From 2015 to 2018 she was a member of the board of Ethos Académie. She teaches at different universities.

More about my experience and qualifications can be found here.