Prof. Dr. Matthias Hühn

At the KLU we open students' minds so that they value new questions more than old answers.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Hühn

Associate Dean for International Affairs

Professor Matthias Hühn is Associate Dean for International Affairs and in this role responsible for growing the KLU's network of partner universities. He started his career as an investment banker and then became a strategy consultant working for Accenture. His first academic positions were at two German universities of applied sciences. He then held professorial and managerial positions at several international universities and gained in-depth experience in very different university systems, among them the German, the British and the American. 

Professor Hühn enjoys the intellectual exchange in the classroom and designed specialised executive trainings (StrategyRefresher) for strategy consultants, among them Accenture, CapGemini and Theron. He also acts as a management coach, is on the advisory boards of start-ups, and acted as a director for the funds management company of Postbank AG. Moreover, he served the community as a justice of peace (Sozialrichter) and as a reserve officer in the German special operations division.

Professor Hühn’s research interests are wide and varied and include ethics, leadership, the role of entrepreneurial teams and epistemology.