Dr. Simon Messner

Top management consultant with 9+ years of experience in companywide performance improvement programs, re-design of logistics processes, lean principles, warehouse and supply chain management for leading logistics service providers and PE companies, partly in shadow COO role - fluent in 4 languages and deep international management experience especially in Paris, France and Germany

Project manager within EU project on Financial Market Innovation, Performance and Regulation; IDEI is a research institute attached to the University of Toulouse

Freelance writer for "Insights into Finance & Economics"

Internship in Economic Policy and Foreign Relations Department: Evaluation of country risks in Asian markets as well as identification of investment opportunities in Asia

Consultant for Economic Library: Designed and implemented an IT program for automatic handling of daily library processes

Research Assistantship

PhD thesis: Market efficiency under asymmetric information and stock market efficiency; Several Awards (training and mobility scholarships) from EU (TMR, HCM) and Germany (DAAD)

Advanced Studies for international economic policy research at Kiel Institute of World Economics; Was elected Vice President of the Alumni Association for the period 99-05

Micro- and Macroeconomics, Industrial Economics, International Trade