Prof. Dr. Ulrich Steger
holds the Alcan Chair of Environmental Management at IMD and is Director of IMD's research project on Corporate Sustainability Management, CSM. Before becoming involved in management education, he was active in German politics. He was Minister of Economics and Technology in the State of Hesse with particular responsibility for transport, traffic and energy. Before that, he was a member of the German Bundestag, specializing in energy, technology, industry, and foreign trade issues.