Prof. Dr. Gudrun Sander

Prof. Dr. Gudrun Sander

Prof. Dr. Gudrun Sander has been working for equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity & inclusion for more than 25 years. She is a professor and senior lecturer of Business Administration with a special emphasis on Diversity Management, and Co-Director of the Competence Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) and Co-Director of the Research Institute for International Management (FIM) at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. With her team of 30 employees, she supports organisations on their way to more inclusion and equal opportunities. She completed her PhD at the University of St. Gallen in 1997. For her dissertation she received the recognition award of the Swiss Society for Organisation and Management (SGO) in 1998. For three decades, she has been committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in research, practice, teaching and further education. Among other things, she initiated the St. Gallen Diversity Benchmarking and the Gender Intelligence Report, launched the management training “Women Back to Business“, is an expert in salary analysis, and on topics such as Unconscious Bias, Diversity & Inclusion, Strategic Management and Leadership. She is a member of the Women’s Empowerment Principles Leadership Group (WEPs LG) of UN Women and UN Global Compact as well as of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Working Group for Gender Equality.