Prof. Dr. Anita Zehrer is Head of the Family Business Center as well as Head of Research (Management & Society) at the MCI , The Entrepreneurial School". She graduated from Innsbruck University with a PhD in Social Sciences and became professor in 2015.

From 2007 to 2015 she was Deputy Head of the MCI Tourism Department, from 2012 to 2017 she was Deputy Head of the Academic Council, from 2016-2019. She was Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney,Australia (2012-2016), the University of Canberra, Australia (2013-2016). From 2009 to 2018 she served as Vice-President of the German Association for Tourism Research DGT, 2014 to 2017 she was Member of the Tourism Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Energy, Germany, from 2016 to 2017 she was tourism expert at the Committee of Regions at the European Union. Her research interests are diverse and include entrepreneurship and family business management. She has broad competence in interdisciplinary research in tourism and business.

Quelle: 2023 International Week