Christine Katharina Volkmann (born 1960) is a German economist and holds the UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship and Intercultural Management at the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics of the University of Wuppertal.
[1][2] From 1981 to 1986 Christine Volkmann studied Business Administration at the University of Giessen, where she also worked as an assistant to the German economist Dietger Hahn [de].
She earned her doctorate in strategic business planning in 1989, while working as a research assistant at Lufthansa on the privatisation of the aviation market in Europe.
[3] In 1999 she became a professor at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences [de] in Gelsenkirchen and is a UNESCO Chairholder for Entrepreneurship and Intercultural Management since 2005.
Moreover, since 2005 she is a visiting professor at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, where she teaches graduate courses in leadership and innovation management [5] and in 2015 at the University of Graz.