Winfried Ruigrok

International Strategy

Corporate Governance

Top Management Teams

Role of the CEO

Boards of Directors

Executive compensation

Teams

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Executive Education

Previous roles at University of St.Gallen:
2012-2024: President’s Delegate for Ranking and Executive Education (University of St Gallen is #6 in European Business School ranking, #1 in German-speaking area, #1 in Switzerland)
2011-2024: Dean, Executive School of Management, Technology and Law
2005-2010: Founding Academic Director, Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme
1999-2004: Founding Academic Director, Master of International Management (MIM) programme
Since 1997: Managing Director, Research Institute for International Management
Since 1996: Professor of International Management

Previous external professional experience:
1995-1996: Research Fellow, Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (UK)
1992-1995: Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and International Business, Erasmus University/Rotterdam School of Management (NL)
1991-1992: Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, University of Amsterdam (NL) 
1990-1991: Research Fellow, Commission of the European Communities, DGXII: Science, Research and Development (Brussels, Belgium)
1987-1990: Research Assistant, Department of International Relations, University of Amsterdam (NL)
1986-1987: Project Officer, Asia Bureau / Projects Department, Netherlands Organisation for International Development Co-operation (Novib) (NL)
1984-1986: Teaching Assistant, Department of International Relations, University of Amsterdam (NL)

1. High-Performance Teams: Towards an Integrated Framework
2. The Role of the Chair in the Board of Directors
3. Executive Pay
4. Global vs. regional corporate strategies
5. Globalisation vs. de-globalisation

• 2020: Best Lecturer; Full-Time MBA programme (core courses). University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
• 2020: Nominated, Best Paper Award, Gender, Diversity and Organization Division, Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2017: Best Lecturer; Women Back to Business programme, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
• 2016: Best Lecturer; Part-Time MBA Core Courses, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
• 2016: Nominated, Best Paper; Organization and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management, Anaheim (CA), U.S.A
• 2015: Best Paper; Track “FDI in and from emerging market economies”, European International Business Academy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2015: Nominated, Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper All Academy Award; Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2015: Best International Paper; Career Division, Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2015: Best Paper; European Academy of Management, Warsaw, Poland.
• 2015: Best Paper; Strategic Interest Group “Corporate Governance”, European Academy of Management, Warsaw, Poland.
• 2014: Nominated, Best Paper; Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management, Philadelphia (PA), U.S.A.
• 2014: Highly Commended Paper; Multinational Business Review.
• 2014: Nominated, Best Paper; Strategic Interest Group“Corporate Governance”, European Academy of Management, Valencia, Spain.
• 2012: Best Reviewer, Special Interest Group “Sports as a Business”, European Academy of Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• 2011: Best Paper (Runner-up), Special Interest Group “Sports as a Business”, European Academy of Management, Tallinn, Estonia.
• 2011: Nominated, Best Paper Award, Special Interest Group “Corporate Governance”, European Academy of Management, Tallinn, Estonia.
• 2010: Best Paper Award, Special Interest Group “Sports as a Business”, European Academy of Management, Rome, Italy.
• 2007: Best Paper Award, “Organizations and the Natural Environment” (ONE) Division, Academy of Management, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
• 2001: Nominated, “Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper All Academy Award”, Academy of Management, Washington D.C. , U.S.A.
• 1996: Myrdal Prize for the best book, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
• 1993: Research Award, Rotterdam School of Management/Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.
   

Dozens of external lectures and presentations each year. Please find the complete list in the corresponding annual report of FIM-HSG: fim.unisg.ch.

University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

SCOPES (Scientific co-operation between Universities in Eastern Europe and Switzerland), SNF funded

Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands