Jonas Friedrich

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Jonas Friedrich researches and consults on democratic and participatory forms of leadership and organizing. His freshly submitted Ph.D. thesis at the University of St.Gallen investigates if and how democratic enterprises contribute to sustainability transformation, focusing on distributed leadership and responsible management while theoretically linking to inequality-sensitive, empowerment-fostering queer and feminist scholarship. With an MSc in Sociology from the University of Oxford and a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from the University of Witten/Herdecke, Mr Friedrich brings a robust interdisciplinary foundation and an international perspective to his work. As an incoming Great Minds Postdoctoral Fellow (HSG), his future research will explore how to scale democratic enterprises through digital governance, further underlining his commitment to innovative, sustainable, and future-ready organizations. Mr Friedrich furthermore serves as a St. Gallen Symposium Young Leader on Board at the B Corp ten23health.