Zeppelin University appoints Professor Dr. Andreas Ostermaier to the ZEPPELIN Chair of Sustainability Accounting and Controlling

"Corporate accounting can support companies in the transition to sustainability and at the same time make a valuable contribution to society. Zeppelin University offers me excellent conditions to contribute to this process through my research and teaching," says Ostermaier, explaining his reasons for moving to ZU. "I'm particularly looking forward to exchanging experiences and ideas and working with colleagues who also place sustainability at the center of their research and teaching."

Andreas Ostermaier, born and raised in Altötting, completed his diploma in International Relations at the Université de Strasbourg and at the same time his Diplom-Kulturwirt at the University of Passau. After completing a Master of Business Research at the LMU Munich School of Management at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, he did his doctorate there on the question of how the privacy of employees and the profit of companies can be reconciled. For his habilitation, he moved to the TUM School of Management at the Technical University of Munich. Andreas Ostermaier analyzed which factors influence honesty in corporate reporting, what undermines it and how it can be promoted. In the meantime, he spent several months as a visiting researcher at Stanford University. Most recently, Andreas Ostermaier was Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. During this time, he studied for a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at LMU Munich. His research and teaching at the ZEPPELIN Chair of Sustainability Accounting and Controlling will focus primarily on internal corporate accounting as well as sustainable corporate management and sustainability reporting.

"Our university is aware of its social responsibility and sees itself in particular as an innovation laboratory for sustainable solutions. In concrete terms, this means not only constantly improving our own carbon footprint and initiating climate protection projects with regional stakeholders, but also further expanding sustainability as a subject of research and teaching," explains ZU President Professor Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn. "The newly established ZEPPELIN Chair of Sustainability Accounting and Controlling is proof of this. We are delighted to have gained Andreas Ostermaier, a proven expert in this field."