Marion Festing 2011

Prof. Dr. Marion Festing

Contact Details

Postal Address:     ESCP Business School Berlin
Heubnerweg 8-10
14059 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: mfesting@escp.eu
Tel: +49 (30) 32 007-153
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Current Positions

Since 2002
Chair of Human Resources and Intercultural Management at ESCP Europe Berlin

Since 2023
Co-scientific director of the ESCP Women in Finance Chair

Since 2014
Academic Director of the Talent Management Instituts (TMI)

Since 2016
Academic Director of the Excellence Centre for Intercultural Management (CIM)

Academic Background and Former Positions

2017 - 2020
Chair of the ESCP Europe Renault Chair of Intercultural Management

2015 - 2018
Visiting Professor at CFVG (teaching in the PhD program), Hanoi/HoChiMinh, Vietnam

2017
Visiting Professor at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

2012 - 2017
Rector of the Berlin Campus of ESCP Europe

2008 - 2011
European Research Dean, ESCP Europe

2004 - 2012
Academic Director of the European Executive MBA program in Berlin, ESCP Europe

2002
Habilitation at University of Paderborn (2-year scholarship from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG) and obtaining of the venia legendi for business administration. Subject of her thesis: "The Globalization Process. An Interdisciplinary Perspective."

1995
PhD (Dissertation; Dr. rer. pol.). Subject of her dissertation: "International Strategic Human Resource Management . A transaction cost theory-based empirical analysis."

1990 - 2002
Research Associate / Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Human Resources, University of Paderborn, Chair of Professor Wolfgang Weber

1984 - 1990
Studies of Economics, University of Paderborn / École Supérieure de Commerce in Toulouse, France

Marion Festing is married and has two children.

Memberships

  • Academy of International Business (AIB)
  • Academy of Management(AoM)
  • European Academy of Management (EURAM)
  • European International Business Academy (EIBA)
  • European Group of Organisation Studies (EGOS)
  • Frauen in die Aufsichtsräte (FidAR; Women for Supervisory Boards Initiative)
  • German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB)
  • German-French Business Circle (DFWK)