André Habisch, Ph.D.
Associate Research Director
André Habisch serves as Associate Research Director of ABIS since 2010.
Since 1998 he is a Professor at the Ingolstadt based business school of Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt in Bavaria/ Germany, where he teaches Business Ethics, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility and Catholic Social Thought; as a Visiting Professor he also taught as Nottingham Business School, Free University of Bozen (Italy) and other German and international universities.
He has served as Scientific member of the Study commissions on Civil Society (1999-2002) and on 'Growth - Wellbeing - Quality of Life' of the German Parliament (Bundestag) at Berlin.
Moreover, he is member of the Scientific Commission of the Federal Agency for Political Education (Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung) at Bonn/ Germany.
He serves as Scientific Consultant of the Catholic Federation of Catholic Entrepreneurs (since 1998), Cologne, and heads the Board of Trustees of the Bayer Cares Foundation, Leverkusen.
He is member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Management Development and the Journal of Corporate Citizenship.
He founded the Ingolstadt-based Center for Corporate Citizenship in 1999 and since then carried out research projects on Sustainability, CSR communication, Citizenship for public and private organizations like the EU commission, the European Academy Business and Society, the Federal Ministry for Research and Education, the Bavarian and Austrian Ministry for Social Affairs, the Bertelsmann Foundation, Hertie Foundation, Microsoft, Schufa etc.
André holds a professional degree (MA equivalent) in Catholic Theology from Tubingen University ('outstanding'), in Economics from Free University of Berlin ('very good'), a PhD from Tubingen University ('summa cum laude') and a post-doc degree ('Habilitation') from Wurzburg Univ.
He held fellowships from the German Study Foundation (Studienstiftung des Dt. Volkes) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) (including the prestigious Heisenberg fellowship, for which he was nominated in 1998. Since 2014 he is a member in the Steering committee of EU-InnovatE which is coordinated by ABIS and the Technical University of Munich.