The European Central Bank as a Sustainability Role Model Philosophical, Ethical and Economic Perspectives

Harald J. Bolsinger is the former Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the FHWS University of Applied Sciences Wurzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany. He gained extensive practical experience in corporate customer care and sales in the cooperative banking sector, as an economic promoter for the city of Nuremberg, Germany, and in independent management consultancy. He is active in numerous initiatives to promote sustainable corporate governance, corporate responsibility, and Christian values in business and academic life. He has taught at various universities, and his current focus is chiefly on sustainable corporate management and value management, as well as business ethics issues. In the Research Group Finance and Economy of the Weltethos Institute at the University of Tübingen he is Member of the Board (Director Regulatory Policy).

Johannes Hofmann was in charge of developing the Frankfurt-Hohenheimer catalogue, which provides with the mostcomprehensive criteria for ethical investments with over 800 evaluation criteria the basis for assigning sustainability ratings to many companies worldwide. He is Chairman of the Founding Board of the Research Group Finance and Economy of the Weltethos Institute at the University of Tübingen.

Bernd Villhauer is Managing Director of the Global Ethic Institute (WEIT) at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and has taught at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Jena, Darmstadt and Tübingen. His main research interests are in cultural and media science issues, as well as theoretical and practical philosophy and economics. He is the co-founder of the Institute for Philosophy of Practice in Darmstadt, Germany; Director of the Good Governance Lab at the European School of Governance (EUSG). In the Research Group Finance and Economy of the Weltethos Institute at the University of Tübingen he is Member of the Board (Director Research Organization).