Dr. Rebecca Ruehle

Biography

Rebecca C. Ruehle joined Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Business Ethics in 2020. Her research focuses on ethical nudging and critically assesses arguments favoring the use of nudges in the corporate sphere. Rebecca completed her doctoral program in Ethics and Responsible Leadership in Business in 2019, earning her Ph.D. from the University of Halle-Wittenberg. She has been a visiting scholar at Tilburg University, Netherlands from October 2019 to December 2019. Moreover, Rebecca has served as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Mannheim and worked as a research assistant at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, where she was responsible for creating an online course on behavioral business ethics. Prior to her academic career, Rebecca worked at IBM from 2009 to 2015, with assignments in the USA and China, primarily supporting IBM's Corporate Citizenship department in Germany. She has been actively involved in ethics-related initiatives, including serving on the managing committee of sneep e.V., the largest German-speaking student network for ethics in economics. During 2018-2019, she served as director of the committee. Throughout her career, Rebecca has engaged in various research and teaching activities focused on Business Ethics, involving projects on corporate responsibility and digital ethics.

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