Professor Josef Wieland is Professor of Institutional Economics, Organisational Governance, Integrity Management & Transcultural Leadership at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, and Director of the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin (LEIZ). He is the initiator and president of the Forum Compliance & Integrity (FCI), Chairman of the German Network of Business Ethics (DNWE), and initiator of the Business Council on Values Management (WerteManagementZFW). Prof. Wieland is a member of the German Corporate Social Responsibility Forum of the German federal government. His main fields of work and research are New Organizational Economics/Institutional Economics, Values and Compliance Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Transcultural Management, Integrity Management, Leadership Excellence.
He is an expert in the field of Compliance and Business Ethics for more than 20 years. An adviser and compliance monitor for many companies.Professor Wieland was awarded the Max Weber Prize for Business Ethics of the BDI (Association of German Entrepreneurs), Cologne 1999, and the State Research Award Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2004.