Dr. Joerg Hofstetter
Associate Professor, Supply Chain Management
KEDGE Business School
Dr. Joerg S. Hofstetter, an expert in the management of multinational multi-tier value chains with over 20 years of experience, is associate professor in supply chain management at KEDGE Business School Bordeaux, president of the International Forum on
Sustainable Value Chains (ISVC), lecturer at the University of St. Gallen’s School of Management and Leuphana University Lüneburg, and fellow of the Center for Organization Research & Design (CORD) at Arizona State University. He consulted
the World Bank Group, various national and supranational government associations as well as over 100 private and public companies, and is non-executive board member in the private sector. He is a founding member of the GRONEN Foundation, a member of Future
Earth's Working Groups on Global Value Chains and Circular Economy, and a member of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform's Trade & Competitiveness Research Committee. Previously, he served at the University of St. Gallen as Vice Director of its
Chair of Logistics Management and Assistant Professor at its School of Management.
Dr. Hofstetter, a German national, has extensive knowledge about global value chains, value chain mapping, sub-supplier management, sustainability in multinational multi-tier supply chains, supplier development, sustainability in procurement, distribution management, and corporate supply chain management. He received several substantial public research grants, works internationally with both the public and the private sector, and published in leading academic journals, expert journals and books. Currently, he is actively engaged in a research project of the Swiss National Research Program 73 "Sustainable Economy."
Under Dr. Hofstetter's leadership, the International Forum on Sustainable Value Chains (ISVC), a Switzerland-based nonprofit association, has become a recognized academia-led platform with members from different parts of the world and sectors developing and implementing scientifically proven, hands-on solutions to master the many sustainability challenges in global value chains.
He holds a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Stuttgart, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Management from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He lives in Zürich, Switzerland with his wife, an international IPR lawyer and senior manager, and their daughter.
Dr. Hofstetter, a German national, has extensive knowledge about global value chains, value chain mapping, sub-supplier management, sustainability in multinational multi-tier supply chains, supplier development, sustainability in procurement, distribution management, and corporate supply chain management. He received several substantial public research grants, works internationally with both the public and the private sector, and published in leading academic journals, expert journals and books. Currently, he is actively engaged in a research project of the Swiss National Research Program 73 "Sustainable Economy."
Under Dr. Hofstetter's leadership, the International Forum on Sustainable Value Chains (ISVC), a Switzerland-based nonprofit association, has become a recognized academia-led platform with members from different parts of the world and sectors developing and implementing scientifically proven, hands-on solutions to master the many sustainability challenges in global value chains.
He holds a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Stuttgart, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Management from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He lives in Zürich, Switzerland with his wife, an international IPR lawyer and senior manager, and their daughter.