Stückelberger

Christoph Stückelberger is Professor of Ethics. He works on education of ethics on global level since four decades in various universities: Prof. (em.) at the University of Basel, Distinguished Professor at the Technical University MEPhI in Moscow, Visiting Professor at GOU University in Enugu/Nigeria, at Minzu University in Beijing/China and at Leeds Beckett University Business School in Leeds/UK. He got his doctor honoriscausa (Dr h.c.) from the Protestant University in Congo UPC in Kinshasa/DRC for his long-term engagement in Africa and the Honorary Professorship (Prof. h.c.) from the Unibit University in Sofia/Bulgaria. He is co-coordinator of the international research project on “Religions in One Belt One Road” OBOR with the Minzu University, Academy of Religions, in Beijing.

His main fields of research and teaching is global ethics applied to economic/business ethics, environmental ethics (with his first book on this topic in 1979), trade ethics, finance ethics incl. tax ethics, political ethics, development ethics, cyber ethics and philanthropy. He published as author and editor over seventy books and hundreds of articles on applied ethics, all downloadable for free on www.globethics.net/publications and also on his website https://www.christophstueckelberger.ch/publishing/ His standard work “Environment and Development. An Ethical Orientation” was published in German, Chinese, Korean and Indonesian. He is a consultant on ethics in business, finance, development, innovation and other fields of applied ethics (www.ethicsconsult.org ).

Christoph Stückelberger is Founder, was Executive Director (2008-2016) and is President (since 2016) of the global network on ethics “Globethics Foundation” (GE), based in Geneva/Switzerland. It is focused on Ethics in Higher Education, with almost 200’000 professors and students registered, ten offices on four continents, 40+ national focal points, the GE Academy with online courses, the GE online library with over 3 million documents and the GE publishing house with over 300 books published.

He was Executive Director of Geneva Agape Foundation until June 2021, now its President, focused on values-driven entrepreneurship. He is Co-Founder and President of OikosInvest Foundation, founded in 2020, for social and environmental investments in Africa and Asia. He is Vice-President of the Ethics Committee of the Ethical Investment Fund “Arete” in Zurich and in February 2023 he was appointed as Director of the School for Election Experts in Central Africa EFEAC (Ecole de Formation Electorale en Afrique Centrale), based in Kinshasa/DRC.

Former professional positions include:

He was Senior Ethics Advisor to the United Nations Scaling up Nutrition Programme (SUN) (3 years). He was Director of the Swiss Development Organisation “Bread for all” (14 years); Director of the Institute for Theology and Ethics of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches (4 Years); Editor-in- chief of a large Magazine (8 Years); Founder and President of Transparency International Switzerland; Member of the Commission for International Cooperation of the Swiss Government (14 years) and President of its sub-commission on WTO for several years; Member of the Swiss Ethics Committee on Non-human Biotechnology of the Swiss Government (9 years); Member and President of the Council of the Swiss Import Promotion Programme SIPPO to support imports from developing countries; President of the international microfinance institution ECLOF working in 30 developing countries (9 years); Founding President of the Swiss Association Church and Environment OeKU; member and consultant of various ethics committees of very large and small Banks (international, Switzerland, Germany, China) and a Sovereign Wealth Fund; consultant of international companies; member of Boards of academic Ethics Centers. Stückelberger was involved in negotiations on debt cancellation between the Swiss Government and developing countries, asset recovery in cases of Marcos, Suharto, Abacha and Mobutu.

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