We also warmly welcome our new personnel addition at the faculty’s managing board level. Since the beginning of July, Gerold Gnau has been able to familiarise himself with the WiSo as the new Faculty Managing Director of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences and as a member of the Managing Board.
He studied until 2008 at the Universities of Passau and Angers, where he completed his diploma in the field of language, economic and cultural studies with a focus on France. Through his broad-based studies, Gerold Gnau succeeded in continuing his interdisciplinary education in the fields of foreign languages, economics and various humanities. This in-depth interdisciplinary understanding opens the view to different subject cultures, "languages" and makes him an ideal faculty manager at a heterogeneous faculty. In addition, he spent a lot of time abroad during his studies, including in France, U.K. and Belgium, before returning to the Rhineland.
From 2010, he worked for 11 years at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, initially in the Rectorate for the areas of strategy and university development, committee support and management of publicly funded projects. In 2014, he then took over the site management of the WHU Campus Düsseldorf. In 2017, he also took over the management of the MBA study programmes.
That each individual can contribute ideas that will bear fruit is his interpretation of our claim "Today's ideas. Tomorrow's impact.”. In his function as faculty director, one of his guiding ideas is to further promote a mentality in all service and administrative units that have the faculty as a whole picture in view. All service and administrative units would have to contribute together to make the faculty better and better, which is the only way to achieve its strategic goals.
"I would like to see a view of all units to the left and right and the common view to the future."
We are pleased to welcome such an interdisciplinary, motivated and innovative colleague to our faculty! Once again welcome Gerold Gnau.