Burkhard Schwenker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Burkhard Schwenker
Occupation	Business Consultant
Date Of Birth	Apr 20, 1958(1958-04-20)
Age	66
Birthplace	Minden
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Aries

Burkhard Schwenker Biography

Burkhard Schwenker is one of the most popular and richest Business Consultant who was born on April 20, 1958 in Minden, North Rhine- Westphalia, Germany. Burkhard Schwenker, a German business consultant, was born 20 April 1958. From 2003 to July 2010, he served as Roland Berger Strategy Consultants’ CEO. In July 2010, he was elected head of the company’s supervisory board. After Martin C. Wittig, his predecessor, resigned due to health reasons in May 2013, he was again the CEO. He was again the chairman of the supervisory boards until he was elected chairman of Roland Berger’s advisory council in July 2015.

Burkhard Schwenker, who was appointed to the Supervisory Board at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (2010), caused a bit of a stir by writing a farewell note to his staff in which he reflected on his time as CEO.

Burkhard Schwenker has authored a number of publications, including various books about economics- and management-related topics. In November 2012, he published a book on leadership, called Gute Führung / On good management. “The corporate lifecycle” is an essay by Burkhard Schwenker featuring interviews with Franz Fehrenbach, Jürgen Hambrecht, Wolfgang Reitzle and Alexander Rittweger. In February 2011, he published Europa führt! Plädoyer für ein erfolgreiches Managementmodell (Europe shows the way! The case for a superior management model). This book, published as a part of the rethink:CEO-series, deals with the “Erfolgsmodell Europa” (Success-story Europe). In Schwenker’s eyes, this European management approach based on consistency, local strengths, global cooperations and social as well as sustainable orientation is the successful counterpart to the American leadership-style.

As a European manager, Professor Schwenker is much-consulted expert on economics in national and international media. Besides his publications about professional fields such as strategy, organization and change management, Burkhard Schwenker can also be seen as a promoter of a European-wide, value- oriented and sustainable approach to management. As the head of the supervisory board at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants – the only globally active consultancy rooted in Europe — Schwenker has stood up for a more self- confident Europe for years in his role as the initiator and jury-member of “Best of European Business”. This award acknowledges European businesses and rewards their economic success.

Burkhard Schwenker, in addition to his duties as Chairman of Roland Berger’s Advisory Board, is involved in various organizations and initiatives. Burkhard Schwenker was appointed the Roland Berger Foundation’s head on September 1, 2010. The foundation grants scholarships each year to underprivileged youth. Schwenker also supports the “Verband deutscher Unternehmerinnen” (VdU), the German branch the international FCEM and its key project, which focuses on the promotion of a stronger representation of women on supervisory boards. He has been a member of the advisory board for ZEIT-Stiftung since 2015.

Burkhard Schwenker Net Worth

Burkhard Schwenker is one of the richest Business Consultant from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Burkhard Schwenker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Burkhard Schwenker studied math and economics at University of Bielefeld. He started his professional career as the assistant to the board of management at Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg AG (PWA). He received his PhD in economics and became a member in 1989 of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. In 1992, he was elected partner.

He was made honorary professor at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 2008. Schwenker is a professor of strategic management at the HHL. He focuses on strategy and organizational transformation. Burkhard Schwenker, along with Torsten Wulf has been the academic director of the school’s Center for Scenario Planning.

In November 2011 Burkhard Schwenker was a member of a 21-man jury which, in cooperation with the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche, selected the 60 most important people driving the country’s so-called Energiewende (“energy transition”).

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In addition, he served as member of the Board of the German Academic Association for Business Research (Verband der deutschen Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft, VHB) until 2014 and is currently deputy chairman of the VHB-Board of Friends. He is a member of the University Council at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg. In addition, he is a Trustee of Dresden International University and the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht (University for Business and Law). Burkhard Schwenker is also Visiting Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

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Burkhard Ranked on the list of most popular Business Consultant. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Burkhard Schwenker celebrates birthday on April 20 of every year.

In July 2017 Schwenker was appointed head of the newly created Kühne Logistics University advisory board.