Prof. Dr. Florian Wettstein

As of February 2011, Prof. Dr. Florian Wettstein is Director of the Institute for Business Ethics.

Florian Wettstein, born in 1975, holds an M.A. in management/economics and a doctorate in business ethics from the University of St.Gallen. Wettstein was a visiting scholar at Carroll School of Management at Boston College in 2005; in 2005/2006 he was awarded a fellowship in the “Program on Human Rights and Justice” at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); in 2006/07 he was a Sessional Assistant Professor in the “Business and Society Program” in the Division of Social Science at York University in Toronto; from 2007-2011 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethics and Business Law at Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul).

Wettstein’s work has appeared in journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Business and Society Review, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik. He is the author of Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution, published by Stanford University Press in 2009.