Jörg Rocholl

President at ESMT Berlin

Prof. Jörg Rocholl, PhD, is the president of ESMT Berlin and a member of the economic advisory board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance. He is also the chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Research Database and Service Center (FDSZ) of the Bundesbank, the vice chairman of the economic advisory board of Deutsche Welle, a member of the scientific advisory board of DIW Berlin, a research professor at the ifo Institute in Munich, Duisenberg Fellow of the European Central Bank (ECB), and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Professor Rocholl graduated from the Witten/Herdecke University, where he earned a degree in economics (with honors). After completing his PhD at Columbia University in New York, he was named an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prof. Rocholl has researched and taught at ESMT since 2007 and was appointed president of ESMT in 2011. Since 2010 he has held the EY Chair in Governance and Compliance.