Nicola Müllerschön in conversation with Jörg Rocholl, President of ESMT Berlin, the highest-ranked business school in Germany and Top 10 in Europe. Jörg talks about the idea behind the newly launched Futurist Institute for Sustainable Transformation, about sustainable leadership and about the leadership skills he considers particularly important for his own role.
Jörg Rocholl has been the President of ESMT since July 2011. He holds both his PhD in Finance and Economics and his MPhil from Columbia Business School and received his "Diplom-Ökonom mit Auszeichnung" (Economics degree with distinction) from the Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. Jörg's research interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Financial Intermediation. Jörg is the vice-chair of the economic advisory board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance and also the vice chairman of the economic advisory board of Deutsche Welle. He is also a research professor at the Ifo Institute in Munich and Duisenberg Fellow of the European Central Bank (ECB).