Dr. Nadine E. Rusch-Schenker combines academic expertise in strategic management with extensive international leadership and advisory experience across real estate, finance, infrastructure, and corporate development. Her work focuses on corporate strategy, governance, organisational development, and the execution of complex strategic initiatives, bridging academic research with practical management experience.
As Vice Chair of Valinfort, she brings strategic perspective and governance expertise to the Board of Directors and supports selected projects and initiatives as required.
Career
Dr. Rusch-Schenker is Head of the Department of Banking & Finance, Controlling and Real Estate at HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Real Estate Institute (SwissREI). She is also a Senior Lecturer and Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Management & Strategy at the University of St. Gallen. Previously, she led the Master in General Management (MGM-HSG), one of the university’s largest and internationally leading master’s programmes.
Prior to her academic career, she held senior strategy and leadership roles at CBRE and Johnson Controls, where she was responsible for strategic projects, international initiatives, organisational development, and operational improvement programmes. She also held project roles at SBB Real Estate. Over the course of her career, she has advised on and led projects across real estate, banking and finance, insurance, infrastructure, building technology, construction, and energy.
Dr. Rusch-Schenker earned her PhD in Strategic Management from the University of St. Gallen, with her dissertation co-supervised by the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. Her academic work focuses on corporate strategy, strategy execution, restructuring, and decision-making in complex organisational environments.
