Biography
Dr. Marcus Schütz has over 25 years of experience in transformational leadership across both corporate and academic sectors. He is currently Managing Partner at MCS & Partner Limited in Toronto and Company Director and General Manager at Swissforecast GmbH in Switzerland. A truly global executive, he serves on the board of various companies and enjoys splitting his time between industry and academia. He previously held senior roles at Volkswagen Group, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bosch, and Wardell Armstrong.

Since 2011, Dr. Schütz has been a Visiting Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Hong Kong Business School. He previously served as Assistant Dean for the EMBA Global Asia Programme, a partnership with London Business School and Columbia University that achieved a #2 global ranking in the Financial Times. His extensive academic career includes roles as an Executive in Residence and Honorary Adjunct Professor at HKUST, APS Chair for Operations Strategy at the University of Malta, and a Fellow of the Centre for International Studies at the Technical University of Dresden. He has also taught at Tilburg University and the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

Dr. Schütz holds a PhD in Geosciences from the University of Duisburg-Essen and a Master’s degree from the University of Cologne. His early career included work as a geoscientist on mining projects during the collapse of the Soviet Union and in Africa. He also served in the German Armed Forces, where he operated MGM-52 rockets.

In 2014, he held a solo photography exhibition in Beijing titled “China’s Empty Quarters.” Dr. Schütz has travelled to all seven continents and is a Life Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He does not play golf, does not own an iPhone, and never goes to the gym.

For more bio-information, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-schuetz/ or www.marcusschuetz.com on his personal blog.