Roland Bardy

Dr. Roland Bardy is owner of BardyConsult in Mannheim, Germany, where he mainly engages in management education, and he serves as Executive Professor of General Management and Leadership at Florida Gulf Coast University. Born in Vienna, Austria, he received his B.Sc. in Chemistry there in 1964, his M.B.A. degree in 1969, and his Ph.D. degree (majoring in econometrics) from Heidelberg University, Germany, in 1974. He worked in Finance and Administration of BASF SE, the German multinational chemicals manufacturer, for about thirty years until 1999, at headquarters and abroad.

After retiring from BASF he took up teaching and consulting, starting as an Adjunct Professor at Goizueta Business School, Emory University, at Fachhochschule Worms (Germany) and in various Swiss and Austrian MBA-programs. His areas are accounting, supply chain management, leadership business ethics and sustainable development. He promotes the philosophy and implementation of responsible leadership and accountability through, among others, the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics (www.wcge.org). Residing both in Mannheim, Germany, and in Naples, Florida, Roland Bardy is privileged to experience both U.S. and European developments in business and academia. He has published, in English and in German, on management accounting, leadership, business ethics, knowledge management and sustainable development