Burkhard Schwenker

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schwenker (born in Germany in 1958) is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. He took over this function from the company's founder Prof. Dr. h.c. Roland Berger on August 1, 2010. Prior to that, he had been a member of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants' global Executive Committee since November 1998, and was elected CEO in 2003. In addition, Burkhard Schwenker was appointed Chairman of the Roland Berger School of Strategy and Economics (RBSE) as of February 2012.

After studying business administration (Dipl. Kfm.) and mathematics, he started his career at PWA Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg AG and completed his Ph.D. He joined Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in 1989, where he built up the Hamburg office and was elected Partner in 1992. He is an expert in strategy, organization and corporate transformation.

Burkhard Schwenker regularly lectures at and sits on the boards of several business schools and universities, and was appointed professor of strategic management at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL). In addition, he is a member of the Executive Board of the Foundation for the Advancement of European Business School and the Board of Trustees at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg. Burkhard Schwenker is also Visiting Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

In addition to his professional and academic work, Burkhard Schwenker takes an active role in several sociopolitical institutions. He was appointed Chairman of the Roland Berger Foundation's Board of Trustees as of September 1, 2010. This Foundation confers the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award every year and provides scholarships to young students from underprivileged backgrounds. He is Deputy Chairman of Atlantik Brücke e.V. and sits on the Boards of Trustees of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Values Commission (Wertekommission e.V.). He is a member of the Senate of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering and the Stifterverband innovation agency for the German science system. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.

Burkhard Schwenker is married, has three children and lives in Hamburg.

• Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
• Chairman of the Roland Berger School of Strategy and Economics (RBSE)