Research Affiliates, affiliated Mercator Fellows and Visiting Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Graf-Vlachy

Professor of Corporate Management

Prof. Lorenz Graf-Vlachy holds the Professorship for Corporate Management at TU Dortmund University and is a Senior Research Fellow at the ESCP Business School’s ESCP Research Institute of Management.

[Translate to Englisch:] Prof. Dr. med. Annegret Kuhn

Prof. Dr. med. Annegret Kuhn, MBA, CHCIO

Professor of Dermatology and Venereology

Prof. Annegret Kuhn is a Lecturer at the Chair of Strategic Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and Research Affiliate at the School of Business, Economics, and Information Systems. In the masters program at the University of Passau, she has initiated the new course „Design of Innovative Strategies in Healthcare using the LEGO® Serious Play® Method“.

Prof. Kuhn is a physician and scientist with a longterm academic and international experience at University Hospitals and an extensive management experience within the German healthcare system, e.g. as last full-time Medical Director of the "Klinikum Passau". It is her goal to contribute to a modern, digital and sustainable healthcare system in Germany and to involve both the patients and the employees of the future at an early stage.

Prof. Don Lange, PhD

Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship

Lincoln Professor of Management Ethics

W. P. Carey School of Business

Arizona State University

Prof. Tim Quigley, PhD

Professor of Management

Terry College of Business

University of Georgia

Victoria Riess

Visiting Lecturer

Victoria Riess, MBA is a Senior Strategy Leader, Executive, Managing Director, Founder, Board Advisor in the technology industry, Cambridge MBA and multiple award-winning Top Women Leader in Tech. She is a keynote speaker on strategy, digital transformation, design thinking, leadership, diversity & inclusion and ESG, as well as cybersecurity, quantum computing and cryptocurrencies.

Since the winter semester 2023/24, she is a visiting lecturer at the University of Passau and offers the Design Thinking workshop as part of the Strategic Management course.