Switzerland
Peter Vogel is Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship and holder of the Debiopharm Chair for Family Philanthropy at IMD Business School in Lausanne. He is also the Director of IMD Global Family Business Center. In his research, teaching and advisory work, Peter works with families, owners, board members and executive teams of family enterprises and family offices globally. The focus of his work is around governance, change management, strategy and organizational renewal, succession planning and management, board and leadership development and last but not least how to foster entrepreneurialism. Peter has published in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, has written a number of books and book chapters as well as scientific and practitioner-oriented reports. His work is frequently referenced by leading newspapers and other media outlets, such as Harvard Business Review, CNN, Huffington Post, Forbes, Financial Times, Techcrunch, amongst others. He is a sought-after speaker, having spoken at TEDxLausanne, the Global Economic Symposium, the Family Matters Forum, the Family Business Network Global Summit, the Swiss Economic Forum, the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance Summit, the St. Gallen Symposium, among many others. Peter is the founder and non-executive Chairman of the Delta Venture Partners AG and is an Associate Partner of the Cambridge Family Enterprise Group. He is part of the expert network of the World Economic Forum (WEF), is an alumni of the Forum’s Global Shapers community. He is part of the Futurework Forum, a global think-tank focused on the future of the world of work. He features among the “Top 100 Family Influencers” globally by Family Capital.
Holder of the Debiopharm Chair for Family Philanthropy
The IMD Global Family Business Award was created in 1996. The aim of the award is to promote family businesses by highlighting the exceptionally high standards they are capable of and the many forms they take. As such, it provides a unique platform for sharing best practices and analyzing the economic backdrop against which family enterprises thrive.
Advisor board member in a private family holding, which is in charge of managing the family's ownership of their legacy business, a listed industrial company in Switzerland.
Peter Vogel Strategy Consulting works with organizations, governments, universities and startups. Our activities are based on three pillars: - Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management Consulting - Start-up Investments, Support in Business Development and Board Representation - Digital Transformation - Healthcare & LifeScience Consulting - Research, Publications and Conference Keynotes More details on: www.petervogel.org
The Ecosystem Value Alliance Foundation was established to support environmental and climate protection and also to support the education of society in this field. By developing scientifically sound, digital and scalable ecological standards, the eva foundation enables ecosystem services to be evaluated and monetized. Applying the standards, tradable ecosystem certificates are generated, the sale of which finances the conservation and restoration of ecosystems. eva started in 2021 their work in Germany and will internationalise their standards within in the next year to Europe and further on to countries outside of Europe. Beside evaluating the storage of carbon eva plans to evaluate other ecosystem services such as biodiversity and water in the coming future.