Oliver Laasch

Oliver Laasch, founder of the Center for Responsible Management Education, has dedicated his career to advancing business sustainability, responsibility, and ethics in academia. After earning his degree in business, economics, and business education from Goethe University in Frankfurt, he lectured and researched at Seoul National University and led the Center for Sustainability and Responsibility at Monterrey Tec. As a manager for a European Social Fund project, he created a training program for Responsible Businesses and coordinated e-learning initiatives at the Institute of Corporate Responsibility Management at Steinbeis University Berlin. Currently, he serves as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, focusing on business model innovation for sustainability and ethics. An accomplished author and editor of the United Nations PRME book collection, Oliver has coached numerous companies and universities while designing and teaching a wide range of courses across bachelor, master, PhD, and executive education levels, including topics such as “Innovation for Sustainability,” “Leadership for Sustainable Development,” and “Social Entrepreneurship.”