The topics of sustainability, innovation and resilience are the passions of scientist Prof. Dr Christian Berg. He is driven by many questions: How do we deal responsibly with creation? How can we ensure that as many people as possible can live well without putting the future at risk? What role does the economy play in this? What can companies do to operate more sustainably? How can the political framework help to set the right incentives for sustainability, and what can each and every individual do? His drive is to understand the context of today’s challenges in order to draw the right conclusions.

Lecture topics by Christian Berg:

• Sustainability – challenge and opportunity for companies
• Corporate sustainability – driver of innovation and optimisation
• Why are we not more sustainable? And how can we change that?
• Sustainable Finance as a lever of transformation
• Sustainability as a project of the century – transformation at all levels

Prof. Dr. Christian Berg first studied physics and philosophy, and later also theology. He wrote his dissertation on the relationship between theology and natural science. As Chief Sustainability Architect in the management consultancy of SAP, he was responsible for the topic of sustainability for many years. He has been Visiting Professor for Corporate Sustainability at Saarland University since 2010 and Honorary Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at Clausthal University of Technology since 2008. Christian Berg has advised the former German Chancellor on issues of sustainable business, among others. His most recent book is a report to the Club of Rome. His credo: sustainability for companies is both: responsibility and opportunity.