Dr Christian Glossner

 

Departmental Lecturer

Biography

Christian is a Professor of Economics and has been a long-standing lecturer and tutor for Global Political Economy at Oxford University, Department for Continuing Education (Oxford Lifelong Learning). Currently, he is also a Research Member of Common Room at Kellogg College.

Prior to his appointments at Oxford, he was a lecturer at the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland) and held an Europaeum Research Fellowship at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales (IUHEI) in Geneva. Beyond, he taught and conducted research at various academic institutions including the University of Bonn, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Tongji University in Shanghai.

He studied at the Université de Fribourg, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (M.Sc.) as well as the University of Oxford where he earned his doctorate (D.Phil.) and venia legendi. He received further academic training at the London Business School (LBS), the Hochschule St. Gallen / University of St. Gallen (HSG / USG) and Stanford University.

Apart from his academic occupation, he worked for various management consultancies, multi-national corporations and public sector institutions including the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial affairs (ECFIN) of the European Commission in Brussels. Beyond, he is an entrepreneur and acts as a business angel for innovative start-ups; in this capacity, he is also member of the Business Angel Network of the University of Oxford.

As a world-traveller widely off the beaten track, he is also dedicated to advancing impactful cooperation in sustainability and conservation of both flora and fauna promoting nature-based solutions.

For his research and work he received inter alia the renowned Scatcherd European Scholarship and was awarded as Responsible Leader and member of the Impact Circle by the BMW Foundation facilitating international collaboration to address and drive global solutions for some of the most consequential challenges of our time.

Research Interests

His research interests and teaching expertise include political economy, economic theory, monetary policy, international relations, diplomacy, intergovernmental politics, modern history as well as entrepreneurship and the developments and implications of artificial general intelligence on society and economy.

Publications

Monographies (selected)

Glossner, C. L., Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft – Politische Kommunikation und Öffentliche Rezeption der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, NOMOS, Baden-Baden, 2014.

Glossner, C. L., The Social Market Economy: Incipiency and Topicality of an Economic and Social Policy for a European Community, in: The Euro-Atlantic Union Review, Vol. 1 No. 0/2014, Berlin, 2014.

Glossner, C. L., Die Pasta ist immer dieselbe, nur die Sauce variiert – Eine empirisch-explorative Untersuchung der Korrelation zwischen Lehrqualität und Lernerfolg, in: Festschrift Louis Bosshart, University of Fribourg, 2013.

Glossner, C. L., This is the Social Market Economy, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Berlin 2011.

Glossner, C. L., The Conception and Implementation of the Social Market Economy by Alfred Müller-Armack and Ludwig Erhard: Incipiency and Actuality, KAS, Berlin, 2011.

Glossner, C. L., 60 Years of Social Market Economy, KAS, Bonn, 2010.

Glossner, C. L., The Making of the German Post-War Economy – Political Communication and Public Reception of the Social Market Economy after World War II, London, I.B. Tauris, 2010 (2012).

Glossner, C. L., 60 Jahre Soziale Marktwirtschaft – Anfänge und Aktualität einer wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftspolitischen Integrationsformel, KAS, Bonn, 2009.

Glossner, C. L., Ora, labora et vive in Geneva, in: Europaeum Review, vol. 8/1, 2007.

Co-Authored Books

Glossner, C. l., Epilogue, in: Karl, J. C. et al. (eds.), Paving the Way to Europe, Norderstedt, 2007.

Book and Article Reviews

Glossner, C. L., Öffentlichkeit, öffentliche Meinung und direkte Demokratie – Eine Fallstudie zur Verfassungsreform in Liechtenstein by Marcinkowski, F.; Marxer, W., in: Liechtenstein Politische Schriften, 47, Verlag der Liechtensteinischen Akademischen Gesellschaft, 2010, in: Studies in Communication Sciences, vol. 12, issue 1, 2012, p. 63.

Glossner, C. L., The Human Rights Act and the Assault on Liberty: Rights and Asylum in the UK by Sharma, P., Nottingham University Press, 2011.