Dr. Bettina Wittneben

Biography

Bettina Wittneben is a Lecturer in Management at Saïd Business School. She is also an Associate Fellow at Pembroke College and the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Before joining the School, Bettina was Principal at AFRY Management Consulting, primarily advising clients in the energy sector. Additionally, she served as Director of the Oxford DPhil in Environmental Research and was faculty at the Rotterdam School of Management. Bettina holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, an MBA from both the University of Alberta and Grenoble School of Management, as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning from the University of Oxford. In 2016, she received the Paper Award from the Academy of Management Journal. Her expertise lies in corporate state climate action, mitigation adaptation, corporate sustainability strategy, and the green technology transition, particularly within energy-intensive industries such as steel. Her research focuses on the transformations enabled by triggers, enablers, and governance structures that foster innovation. She has a keen interest in studying corporate and state climate action to overcome broader sustainability challenges. Bettina volunteers on the Research Advisory Board for Glion Institute of Higher Education and serves as a Scientific Advisor for the Trust for Sustainable Living and Judge advises Mistra, a Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research. She teaches technology operations management and organizational behavior analysis.

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