Christian Olivier Graf

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Head Continuing & Corporate Education
Program Director MAS Business Administration
Member of the expert commission for Continuing Education SML
Member of the expert commission for teaching project management at higher education

www.zhaw.ch/en/sml/institutes-centres/imi/about-us-1/

Professional development teaching

MAS Business Administration

Expertise and research interests

International Management
Project Management
Business Development
Corporate Education

Educational background

Doctoral School DBA (Nottingham Trent University)
MSc Programme and Project Management (Cranfield University)
Executive MBA FH in International Marketing (Kalaidos UAS)
B.B.A. in International Management (PHW)
Controller’s Diploma (CA Controller Akademie Gauting)

Professional milestones

Since 2011 ZHAW School of Management and Law
- 06.2016 - 05.2018 Senior Business Consultant / Lecturer
- 08.2014 - 05.2016 Head of Strategic Projects International Business
- 04.2012 - 07.2014 Head of Development & Projects
- until 03.2012 Manager Strategic Procects and interim General Secretary SML

Previously, various positions in the financial, telecommunications, fluid technology, safety, cosmetics and education industries in SMEs and corporations. Project experiences in controllings, business development and turnarounds.

Former lecturer for Case Study, Bachelor Thesis, exams in International Management at the Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, KS Kaderschule St.Gallen and KV Zürich Business School

Publications

• Dela Cruz, Jeremy; Graf, Christian Olivier; Wolter, Anika,

  2019.

  Assessing the impact of “more-flexible” learning as part of a study program.

  Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung.

  14(3), pp. 157-177.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3217/zfhe-14-03/10

• Seelhofer, Daniel; Graf, Christian Olivier,

  2018.

  National project management maturity : a conceptual framework.

  Central European Business Review.

  7(2), pp. 1-20.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3978

• Seelhofer, Daniel; Graf, Christian Olivier; Guhl, Selina,

  2018.

  Developing a project management culture in institutions of higher learning [poster].

  In:

  4th International Scientific Conference Knowledge Based Sustainable Economic (ERAZ) , Sofia, Bulgaria, 7 June 2018.

  University of National and World Economy - Sofia.

• Graf, Christian Olivier,

  2018.

  The implications of an organisational project management culture within a business school on delivering projects : taking the ZHAW School of Management and Law as an example.

  In:

  Research Colloquium 2018, Winterthur, 23. Mai 2018.

go back