In the spring semester of 2025, I taught a master’s course at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) entitled ‘The Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Agenda 2030: Saving the World and the Market.’ As part of their final exam, the students worked in groups to produce an episode of a fictional podcast. To do this, they each interviewed an expert from the field.
Why am I publishing the podcasts here? Because the interviewees and I thought they were very good overall. And because they make it clear that the Sustainable Development Goals represent a historic consensus and a normative and political compass that we should follow now more than ever.
- Podcast with Ambassador Thomas Gass, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
- Podcast with Matthias Leisinger, Co-Managing Director, focusright
- Podcast with Laurent Matile, expert on business and development, Alliance Sud
- Podcast with Marcel Niederberger, Head of Sustainability, V-Zug
- Podcast with Noemi Rom, Head of Sustainability Transformation, Zühlke Group
- Podcast with Peter Zollinger and Fabian Ottiger, Head of Impact Research and Impact Research Manager, Globalance Bank
Academic teaching
| When | What |
| S1 2025 | MA course “Die nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele der UN-Agenda 2030: die Welt und den Markt retten”, University of St. Gallen |
| S2 2024 | MA course “Die Vermessung der Welt. Entwicklung, Chancen und Gefahren der Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung“, University of St. Gallen |
| S1 2024 | BA course “Unternehmensverantwortung in der Schweiz im Kontext der Globalisierung”, University of St. Gallen |
| S1 2023 | MA course “Heimelig, heimlich, unheimlich: das wirtschaftliche ‚Imperium‘ im Kleinstaat Schweiz”, University of St. Gallen |
| S2 2022 | MA course “Richtig streiten – Konfliktpartnerschaften für eine nachhaltigere Wirtschaft”, University of St. Gallen |
| S1 2022 | MA course “Die nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele der UN-Agenda 2030: die Welt und den Markt retten”, University of St. Gallen |
| S1 2021 | BSc course “Intercultural Competence”, Institute for Tourism and Leisure, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (UoAS) |
| S1 2020 | MA course “Die nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele der UN-Agenda 2030: die Welt und den Markt retten”, University of St. Gallen; BSc-Kurse “Sustainable Development”, Institute for Tourism and Leisure, UoAS |
| S1 2020 | CAS course and BSc course “Intercultural Competence”, Institute for Tourism and Leisure, BSc course “Nachhaltige Entwicklung”, Centre for Business Administration, all at UoAS |
| S1 2019 | BA course “Unternehmensverantwortung in der Schweiz im Kontext der Globalisierung”, University of St. Gallen; BSc course “Sustainable Development”, Institute for Tourism and Leisure, UoAS |
| S1 2019 | MA course “Heimelig, heimlich, unheimlich: das wirtschaftliche ‚Imperium‘ im Kleinstaat Schweiz”, University of St. Gallen; BSc course “Intercultural Competence”, Institute for Tourism and Leisure, UoAS; CAS course “Global Social Entrepreneurship” Center for Philanthropy, University of Basel (group mentor) |
| S1 2018 | BA courses “Der globale Markt als Totengräber nationaler Eigenständigkeit? Ein Vergleich gesellschaftlicher Diskurse in Mexiko und der Schweiz”, “From Foe to Friend and Role Model: Multinationals and Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico”, University of St. Gallen; BSc course “Sustainable Development”, Institute for Tourism and Leisure, UoAS |
| S1 2018 | Public workshop on education and sustainable development in Mexico, Center for Global Studies, University of Bern (organiser, moderator) |
| 07.-08. 2017 | International Business Boot Camp Latin America at the School of Management Fribourg (lecturer and coach) |
| S1 2017 | Public workshop on sustainable agriculture in Mexico, Center for Global Studies, University of Bern (organiser, moderator), Workshop “The Sustainable Development Goals in Latin America: Discourses and Practices at the Local and Global Level”, University of St. Gallen (co-organiser and speaker) |
| S1 2016 | Postdoc seminar “Empresarios y legitimidad en México a finales del siglo XX” at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City |
Training
As sustainability expert of the Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems (SQS), I provide training in sustainable business conduct (website in German only). The participants are strategic and operational decision-makers from Swiss SMEs.