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Nils Ole Oermann (born 1973 in Bielefeld, Germany) is a German academic and, according to the Handelsblatt, Germany’s best known business daily, is one of the country’s leading business ethicists.

In 2009 he was appointed tenured professor of sustainability and sustainable economics at the Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany) and served as vice-president of his university from 2010 to 2012. He currently serves as the director of the Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research at Lüneburg University. He is also a visiting professor for business ethics at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) since 2010. As founding member, he co-heads the program on Religion, Politics and Economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Oermann is co-editor responsible for ethics at the Theologische Literaturzeitung, the oldest German-language review journal in theology. He is a member of the board of the International Martin Luther Foundation. In 2013 he was appointed by the Rhodes Trust, Oxford, as its national secretary administering Rhodes scholarships for German nationals.

As an ordained Lutheran pastor he serves in his home parish in Schäplitz, Altmark, in eastern Germany.

Education

From 1992-95 Oermann studied Protestant theology, law, history and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig and Münster (Germany), receiving a master’s degree in theology from the University of Leipzig in 1997. From 1996-98 he was a Rhodes scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, where he first earned a master of studies in theology in 1997 and was then awarded a DPhil in modern history in 1998 after completing a doctoral thesis on colonial African history. His thesis was published as Mission, Church and State Relations in South West Africa under German Rule: 1884-1915. In the same year he was awarded a second doctorate in theology from the University of Leipzig (Germany) for a thesis on public ecclesiastical law. In 2003 he went to Harvard University as a McCloy scholar, where he studied economics, international relations and ethics, leading to an MPA in Public Administration. In 2004 he passed his first state examination in law and was awarded a JD from the University of Hamburg and the Hamburg High Court.

In 2006, after two years of postdoctoral research in business ethics at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) involving collaboration with such scholars as Jeffrey Sachs, Samuel Huntington and Noam Chomsky, he was awarded the habilitation, qualifying him to be a tenured professor in Germany. His habilitation thesis, supervised by Richard Schröder, a key figure in the GDR opposition movement, conceptualized a Protestant ethics of business under conditions of global markets. It was awarded prizes from the Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation and the Hanns Lilje Foundation and was published in 2007. He also wrote a major biography of Albert Schweitzer published in German (2015) and in English by Oxford University Press (2016), as well as an introductory volume on business ethics for the series C.H.Beck Wissen (2015).

Professional Activities

From 1999 to 2001 Oermann worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in New Zealand and Australia.

Oermann is also active as a political and economic consultant. From 2002 until 2017 he was a personal advisor and speechwriter for Wolfgang Schäuble, a leading politician of the Christian Democratic Union party in Germany. From 2002 to 2004 he worked in Schäuble’s office in the German Bundestag on foreign and European policy. From 2004 to 2007 Oermann accepted a similar position with Horst Köhler, who was then president of the Federal Republic of Germany, as his personal advisor and speechwriter; whom he still supports to this day. From 2007 to 2009 Oermann returned to work for Wolfgang Schäuble, then minister of the interior, and contributed to setting up the first German Conference on Islam. From 2009-17 Oermann advised Schäuble, as minister of finance, on a range of issues concerning digitalization, European policy and economics.

As an economic adviser and business ethicist he has served on the boards of two major DAX 30 corporations, especially during the banking crisis and the current Dieselgate scandal.

Publications

Oermann has written a number of books in English and German, for both academic and more general audiences, on a range of topics.

·       Mission, Church and State Relations in South West Africa under German Rule: 1884-1915. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag. 1999. ISBN 978-3515075787.

·       ''Anständig Geld verdienen? Protestantische Wirtschaftsethik unter den Bedingungen globaler Märkte.'' Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus. 2007. ISBN 3-579-08034-2.

·       Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965): Eine Biographie. Munich: C. H. Beck. 2010. ISBN 978-3-406-59127-3.

·       Der fröhliche Sisyphos: Für Wolfgang Schäuble. (with Bruno Kahl and Markus Kerber; ed. Johannes Zachhuber). Freiburg, Germany. 2012. ISBN 978-3-45130663-1.

·       ''Der Euro: eine Karriere? Für Horst Köhler''. Freiburg, Germany: Herder. 2012. ISBN 978-3-45130762-1.

·       Tod eines Investmentbankers: Eine Sittengeschichte der Finanzbranche. Freiburg, Germany: Herder. 2013. ISBN 978-3-451-30676-1.

·       Der weiße Ovambo: Ein deutsch-afrikanisches Jahrhundertleben. Freiburg, Germany: Herder. 2014. ISBN 978-3451309205.

·       Wirtschaftsethik: Vom freien Markt bis zur Share Economy. Munich: C. H. Beck. 2015. ISBN 978-3-406-67549-2.

·       Albert Schweitzer: A Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0198784227.

·       Zum Westkaffee bei Margot Honecker. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe. 2016. ISBN 978-3-455-50425-5.

References

·       Program on Religion and Politics. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

·       ''Hanns-Lilje-Stiftungspreisträger 2011. Prof. Dr. Dr. Nils Ole Oermann.'' Hanns-Lilje-Stiftung.

·       Handelsblatt Nr. 58, 22/23/24 March 2013, p. 56f.

·       Finanzminister: Zucht und Zerbrechlichkeit. Zeit Online. 2010/19.

·       Wolfgang Schäuble: Die Unverwüstlichkeit der Schildkröte. Zeit Online. 2015/21.

·       Mitglieder des Kuratoriums. Website of the Luther Foundation.

External links

·       ''Prof. Dr. Dr. Nils Ole Oermann. Professor für Ethik mit Schwerpunkt Nachhaltigkeit und nachhaltiges Wirtschaften.'' Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.