Prof. Dr. Stephan A. Jansen

Prof. Dr. Stephan A. Jansen stands for education & research, consulting & lec-tures and movement for companies and cities. He holds the Chair of Manage-ment, Innovation and Financing and is head of the “Center for Philanthropy & Civil Society (PhiCS)” at Karlshochschule in Karlsruhe. He is also the founding coordinator for the Digital Urban Center for Aging & Health (DUCAH) at the Ale-xander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society in cooperation with Charité, Einstein Center, Weizenbaum Institute and the Berlin universities and since July 2021 Professor for Urban Innovation - Health, Mobility, Digitalization at the Uni-versity of the Arts.

In 2024, he co-founded the “Agentur für Konstruktive Wirtschaft | AKW” with Gabriele Fischer and the publishing house brand eins Medien AG

Since 2016 partner of the organizational, strategy and brand consultancy “Das 18te Kamel & Komplizen” in Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna for many Dax corporati-ons, family businesses and charities as well as managing director of “Gesell-schaft für Urbane Mobilität” in Berlin with service bike and fleet solutions for companies & districts (BICICLI Cycling Solutions) and the mobility consultancy MOND - Mobility New Designs), among others awarded the German Bicycle Prize, the Future Mobility Award of the Tagesspiegel and the Innovation Prize of the German Trade).

He has been a regular visiting researcher at Stanford University since 1999. He is the author of more than 20 books and over 300 publications. Since 2005, he has also been an author for the business magazine “brand eins”, the magazine “enorm” and co-editor of the “Zeitschrift für Management”. His book “Oszillodox” was voted one of the 100 most important management books of the 20th centu-ry by the Harvard Business School. Many of his books have appeared in nume-rous editions. His next book with Hanser Verlag will be on healthy cities.

He studied economics in Witten/Herdecke (doctorate), at the Universities of New York, Tokyo Kezai and Stanford University and at Harvard Business School. From 2003 to 2014, he was the appointed founding president and ma-naging director of the foundation-based Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance). At the age of 31, he was the youngest university president in Germany, and the successful establishment of Zeppelin University as a renow-ned private university is closely linked to his name.

Prof. Jansen is a sought-after scientific advisor and advisory board member of a large number of companies, foundations, social enterprises, educational insti-tutions and ministries: e.g. member of the Federal Chancellor's Innovation Dia-logue, the Research Union of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the advisory board of the then Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Fi-nance Peer Steibrück.

Prof. Jansen has received numerous awards from the media, foundations and politicians in recent decades. In 2016, he was the first of two Germans to be recognized in the global ranking for management thinkers “Thinkers50”.

His lectures are extremely eloquent, challenging, but highly entertaining, inter-active and provocatively pointed, and he is guaranteed to think outside the box.