Prof. Julia Binder

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Julia Binder is Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation at IMD Business School. She specialises in the intersection between sustainability and innovation. As Director of IMD’s Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Business, she aims to help business leaders find radical and innovative solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time. Prior to joining IMD in 2021, Prof. Binder was Deputy to the Vice President for Innovation at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and led the school’s sustainability initiative Tech4Impact. In recognition of her work, she was named on the 2022 Thinkers50 Radar list of management thinkers to watch in the coming year. She received her PhD summa cum laude from the Technical University of Munich for her thesis on sustainable entrepreneurship, and she continues to research the topic at IMD.