Dr Gerhard Schnyder is a reader in International Management at Loughborough University London. He joined LU LND in August 2017 from King’s College London, where he worked from 2009 as lecturer, senior lecturer, and then reader in Comparative Management. Before that he was a research fellow at the Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge (2007–2009) and the Centre for International Studies, and Diplomacy (CISD), SOAS, University of London (January–August 2009). Gerhard holds a PhD in political science from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2008), an MA ("DEA") in political science from the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva (2003) and a BA ("licence") in political science from the University of Lausanne (2001).