Lars-Hendrik Röller, chief competition economist at the European Commission, is to succeed Derek Abell as president of ESMT, the German business school set up in 2002 by Germany’s corporate elite.
Prof Röller was appointed the first chief competition economist of the European Commission in September 2003 with responsibilities for the economic analysis involved in mergers, cartel investigations and market abuse. However, much of his previous professional life was spent in academia.
His CV includes stints at the department of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and at several academic institutions in Berlin. Between1987 and 1999 he held a professorship at Insead.
The fledgling European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) was founded in October 2002 on the initiative of 25 leading German companies and associations with the aim of establishing an international business school with a European focus. ESMT has taught executive education programmes since 2003 and started a full-time MBA in January 2006. ESMT has three campuses, in Berlin, Munich and Cologne
Prof Röller will take up his new position on September 1, 2006.
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