Philipp Aerni is Professor at the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR) and Director of the Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS) in Zurich. In addition, he is also Head of Science and Public Policy at the Institute for Plant Microbial Biology (IPMB) at the University of Zurich and teaches courses on sustainability and agriculture at the University of Zurich as well as ETH Zurich. He studied Geography and Economics at the University of Zurich, obtained his PhD in Agricultural Economics at the ETH Zurich and started his research career as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School in den USA. After his return from the United States, he continued his research at ETH Zurich, the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. As an interdisciplinary and practice-oriented social scientist, his research focuses on the role of entrepreneurship, technology and innovation for sustainable development and the science-based evaluation of corporate sustainability.