Professor Emeritus Dieter Schneidewind is regarded as a seasoned expert on East and Southeast Asia. He gained prominent management experience through his 20 years on the management board, as well as many more years as a member of the supervisory board, at Wella AG. During his business career he set up 15 daughter companies throughout Asia, including Japan, South Korea, and the Peoples’ Republic of China.
In 1979 he was appointed Assistant Professor for “Business and Society of East Asia” at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, a position he managed for 20 years. For a period afterwards he taught International Marketing and Management at the University of Giessen in Germany. He also had teaching positions at the University of Duisburg (Duisburg, Germany), INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), the WHU School of Business (Koblenz, Germany), The Technical University of Dresden (Dresden, Germany), the University of Marburg (Marburg, Germany), and the ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland).
