Selected lectures and speaking engagements - online and offline

- Since 2012: ‘Sustainable Business - Managing for Tomorrow’; several full courses per year for international BA and MBA students at Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Since 2017: 'Mensch, Umwelt, Wirtschaft - Wie passt das zusammen?' University lectures on the reconciliation of human, environmental and economic needs for 7 to 13 year olds as part of the Austrian Children's University programme (Kinderuni Wien)
- 2021 'Sustainability in a post-Covid world: how to future-proof your brand?'; BrandFit podcast series. LISTEN
- 2020 'Green economy: From global to local.' #EUvsVirus Hackathon & Matchathon Summit; WATCH panel discussion here.
- 2020 'Climate change, health and the services offered by Planet Earth: how climate action can pay for itself'; Creating the Future Together podcast. LISTEN
- 2020 'Protecting the Environment = Protecting your Health' - what a forest city may look like'; Green Party community information event.
- 2020 'COVID-19 als Chance for eine bessere Welt'; Keynote speech at Fundraising Congress Austria; WATCH
- 2020 'Sustainable Business in a post-COVID World: Let's not Waste this Crisis'; Business in Oxford Conference 2020; WATCH
- 2020 'The Planet Calls' podcast on surviving and thriving in a COVID-world. LISTEN
- 2020 'Let's not waste the COVID-19 crisis: opportunities for climate action'; Optimist Café International
- 2020, several sessions: 'Getting to below 2 Degrees: Climate Policy and System Dynamics to Avoid the Worst Impacts of Climate Change'; WU Vienna, Hera General Assembly, Optimist Café
- 2019 ‘Multisectoral Approaches for Human Development’; EU DEVCO Global Health Thematic Seminar, Brussels
- 2019 'Sustainable Development and Stakeholder Engagement in Africa'; Guest lecture at Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 2018 ‘Urbanisation, health and the urban poor’; EU DEVCO Global Health Thematic Seminar, Brussels
- 2018 Happiness & Wellbeing in a Global Health and Development Context; Women's Forum, Soroptimist International, Austria
- 2017 'Innovative and appropriate inclusive business solutions in the energy sector'; Keynote speech at Global Forum on Sustainable Energy, Vienna
- 2016 'Rules and standards for happiness: the socio-political perspective'; Wiener Achse, MuseumsQuartier Vienna
- 2015 ‘Social Innovation and Research'; CorporAID Conference for Business & Development Cooperation (Vienna)
- 2015 'Intercultural Communication in Practice: Experiences from Africa and Beyond'; University of Salzburg, Austria
- 2013 to date 'Bottom of the Pyramid Consumers and Producers - Marketing, Ethics and Sustainability'; Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 2013 ‘Politics & Happiness: Measuring Societal Wellbeing’; Institute for Happiness Research in Europe, Vienna
- 2013 ‘Megatrends: The Global Emerging Middle Class’; Institute for Development Cooperation, Vienna
- 2012 ‘Social Impact Assessment – What, Why, How’; SchumBeta Conference on ideas and innovation for sustainability, Vienna
- 2011: ‘Poverty, Conflict and Violence in Africa and Asia’; full course for postgraduate students at Alpe-Adria University, Institute for Peace Research
- 2011, 2012 ‘Business & Ethics in Asia and Africa’; Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 2009: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics’; interdisciplinary course for Master’s students at Augsburg University & Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen
- 2008 ‘The International Development System’; Queen Mary University College London
Other speaking topics

- Climate change: understanding the impacts of climate action and systems dynamics using the En-ROADS simulator
- COVID-19 and the climate crisis: parallels, opportunities and lessons learned
- Multisolving: creating double opportunities and triple wins across the social, environmental and economic spheres
- Planetary Health: how climate change makes us sick and how climate action can pay for itself
- Social Impact: analysing and maximising societal impact by integrating micro and macro perspectives
- Sustainable Development: SDG trade-offs and the roles & responsibilities of public and private actors in addressing them
- Happiness: Beyond GDP - real measures for societal progress and wellbeing
- Sustainable Business and CSR: managing for tomorrow by addressing global challenges of today
- Climate triggers: understanding key levers to pull for the climate while keeping equity considerations in mind
- Africa: doing business in Africa through inclusive innovation and meaningful stakeholder engagement
- Global Health: multisectoral risks in need of multisectoral collaboration and health in all policies
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