About WiSE

The Wittneben Institute for Sustainable Enterprise provides expertise in the strategic management of environmental, technological and economic challenges. Each project is unique in its composition of experts and methods. Work conducted at the institute is bespoke, professional and transnational. In order to offer the highest level of service, expert teams are recruited on a project basis. All research and training is developed, coordinated and assessed by Dr Bettina Wittneben, Founding Director.

The WiSE conducts two Oxford Climate Primer executive professional development workshops in 2012. These take place at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, and draw on University of Oxford expertise. The WiSE also provides in-house training on climate policy for a variety of organizations and sets up climate coaching at climate summits. Please inquire about training courses via the contact form.

Research at the WiSE is custom designed to include relevant expertise and appropriate methods. Project examples are: energy efficiency in industry, emission reduction policy innovations, organizational change and new business models. To set up your own bespoke research project on sustainable enterprise, please inquire via the contact form.

Dr Wittneben has conducted research and courses in six universities, five countries and four languages. In the management theory field, she has chaired numerous international conference streams, edited two special issues and set up cutting edge workshops. In the policy realm, she has advised the United Nations, European governments and industry.

Dr Wittneben has been a faculty member at the University of Oxford since 2008. Before that, she set up the Sustainability and Climate Research centre while on the faculty of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. She has also worked as researcher at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

She holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Cambridge and MBA degrees from the University of Alberta, Canada, and the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Grenoble, France.