IMD Annual Report 2021

Faculty and Research 48

New faculty

In 2021, IMD welcomed one new full member of faculty as it bolstered its capabilities in the increasingly important area of sustainability.

Julia Binder Julia is the Director of the IMD Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Business and Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation, specializing in teaching and researching the ways in which companies align social, environmental and economic impact. She was previously Deputy to the Vice President for Innovation at EPFL and led the school’s sustainability initiative Tech4Impact. Her awards include the Bavarian Culture Prize for the best PhD thesis in 2017, the Best Emerging Scholar Paper Award at the World Open Innovation Conference in 2019 and the Best Case Study in the social entrepreneurship track of the oikos teaching case writing competition in 2016.