The Managing Board leads the WiSo Faculty. It develops the WiSo strategy in consultation with the stakeholders and committees and draws up a faculty development plan in consultation with the  Faculty Council as a contribution to the university development plan. It distributes positions and resources within the faculty on the basis of the distribution principles defined in consultation with the  Faculty Council. The The Managing Board is also responsible for the organisation and coordination of administrative processes in the Faculty.

studied industrial engineering and management at the Universities of Berkeley, Paderborn and Stanford. He gained his Ph.D. at Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering. After that, he worked for three years as an assistant professor in Stanford, after that for three years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Cologne. He started his academic career in Germany at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, before joining the University of Cologne. Here, he heads the Chair for Supply Chain Management & Management Science at the WiSo Faculty. In his role as First Vice Dean he was first responsible for the internationalization of the WiSo faculty, after that he set up and developed the Business School of the University of Cologne. Since April 2019, Professor Thonemann is Dean of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne.

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Vice Dean: Prof. Dr Nicole Naeve-Stoß

Transfer officer of the WiSo Faculty

Nicole Naeve-Stoß studied business education/teaching at vocational schools at the University of Hamburg. She received her doctorate in business education from the University of Hamburg in 2013. She then worked as akademischer Rat at the University of Göttingen and as a professor at the University of Siegen. In 2017, she moved to the University of Cologne, where she holds a professorship in business education.

Her research focuses include subject-oriented curriculum and teaching development, teaching-learning processes in vocational education, teacher training, innovation processes in vocational education, and university didactics.

Nicole Naeve-Stoß is co-editor of the journal bwp@ - Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik - online.

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Prof Michael Krause, Ph.D., studied economics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, at the University of California in Berkeley and at Yale University, where he received his doctorate in economics in 1999. Until 2005, he was Assistant Professor of Economics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Between 2005 and 2010, he was a guest lecturer at various renowned institutions, including Goethe University Frankfurt (2010), Tel Aviv University in Israel (2009), Tokyo University in Japan (2008), the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (2005) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, USA.

From 2005 to 2013, Professor Krause worked as a Senior Research Economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt am Main. Since 2013, he has been Professor (W3) of Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne.

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Prof. Dr Marita Jacob studied Social Sciences, Mathematics and Economics at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, at Westminster University London and the Freie Universität Berlin. Since May 2011, Marita Jacob has been a professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS).

Her research work is devoted to social inequalities in the life course, especially educational inequalities and employment market issues. Further, Marita Jacob is involved in the promotion of interdisciplinary empirical educational research. Her research work has been published in leading sociological journals (e.g. Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility). Topics addressed, includes the influence of social background on educational decisions and pathways, and the correlation between education and fertility as well as labour market entry and unemployment. 

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Prof. Dr Michael Overesch studied economics in Osnabrück and Mannheim and graduated in Business Administration at the University of Mannheim. He completed a doctorate at the University of Mannheim. After that he worked at the department of business taxation of Prof. Ulrich Schreiber at the University of Mannheim and at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW). He also worked as a guest researcher at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.Prof. Overesch was Professor of Business Taxation at Goethe University in Frankfurt (2011 - 2013). He is Professor of Business Taxation at the University of Cologne since 2013.

His research interests lie in the influence of taxation on the decision making of companies. A research focus is tax planning of international companies. He examined cross-border profit shifting activities and optimal tax investment and location decisions of international companies in numerous publications.

The lectures of Prof. Dr Overesch teach basic tax knowledge and its involvement in business decisions.

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is the Faculty Managing Director of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the Universiy of Cologne and, as a member of the Dean's Office, supports the development and implementation of the Faculty's strategy.

In addition, he is responsible for efficient and effective student-orientated administration and, in coordination with the Dean, for all economic matters of the Faculty.

• As Faculty Managing Director, he heads the central faculty administration of the WiSo Faculty.