HSG Learning Center
We are building the future of learning and teaching
The aim of the HSG Foundation is to promote the University of St.Gallen in its development as one of the leading international business universities. It initiates and combines funding activities to realise strategically important projects for the HSG, thus contributing to assuring research and teaching excellence.
Practice-oriented research and entrepreneurship
Digital literacy and learning expertise
Personal Meetings
Global positioning
The HSG Foundation supports entrepreneurship at the HSG as well as research, which develops business-friendly and practical solutions for the many challenges of future generations. It promotes initiatives, which strengthen responsible behaviour and a liberal economic order as the foundations of a free society.
The HSG Foundation supports the University of St.Gallen in seizing the opportunities of digitalisation.
The HSG Foundation enables people to experience the HSG campus as a meeting place – as formative experiences in their personal development – with charismatic personalities from research, business, politics and culture.
The HSG Foundation supports the University of St.Gallen in its quest to attract global talent to St.Gallen. In doing so, it makes a contribution towards increasing the attractiveness of the HSG and the region as an academic hub for researchers, students and companies.
The HSG board of trustees – eight high-profile personalities.
The following personalities from the alumni and benefactors have been members of the board of trustees of the HSG Foundation since 2016:
Dr. Paul Achleitner
Präsident seit 20. Januar 2016
Chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank AG.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger
Vizepräsident seit 10. April 2012
President of the University of St.Gallen (HSG)
Prof. Dr. Monika Bütler
Stiftungsrätin seit 20. Januar 2016
Director of the Chair for Business Politics at the University of St.Gallen (HSG)
Andreas R. Kirchschläger, lic. iur. HSG
Stiftungsrat seit 16. Juli 2013
CEO of the elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
Dr. Urs Landolf
Stiftungsrat seit 7. Mai 2001
President of HSG Alumni
Georg Schaeffler, lic.oec. HSG
Stiftungsrat seit 20. Januar 2016
Chairman of the supervisory board of Schaeffler AG
Dr. h.c. Thomas Schmidheiny
Stiftungsrat seit 20. Januar 2016
Entrepreneur
Urs Wietlisbach, lic.oec. HSG
Stiftungsrat seit 20. Januar 2016
Partner, co-founder, member of the administrative board and chairman of the market committee of Partners Group Holding AG
Michael Hilti, lic. oec. HSG
Stiftungsrat seit 21. Februar 2019
Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hilti AG, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hilti Foundation and Hilti Art Foundation, Princely Councillor of Commerce and Honorary Senator of the University of St.Gallen
Ernst Risch, lic. oec. HSG
Geschäftsführer
Susanne Haake Kehl
Projektmanagerin
Gerold Schneider
Leiter Kampagnen
Sonja Fehr
Projektmanagerin
Patrick O. Brauchbar
Key Account Relations
Andrea Wahl
Projektmanagerin
We are building the future of learning and teaching
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Business Economics and Public Policy