Marie-Therese Claes Ph.D.

Marie-Therese Claes, Ph.D., is Head of the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organaizations at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Previously she was Professor of Cross-Cultural Management at Louvain School of Management, University of Louvain, Belgium. She teaches in the CEMS Masters in International Management and is part of the Gender and Diversity, and Cross-Cultural and Global Leadership Faculty Groups.

In addition, she holds guest professorships at several other universities in Europe, Asia and the United States of America, was Dean of the Faculty of Business at the Asian University Thailand, and Director of the Executive MBA at LSM. She is also consultant and coach for relocation, diversity management and global leadership. She has worked as a consultant to various companies and is a former President of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR Europa) and the European Women’s Management Development International Network (EWMD). She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fulbright and a Japan Foundation alumna.