Prof. Dr. Christian Decker
Professor of International Business, especially International and Corporate Finance
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg)
Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Business
Berliner Tor 5
20099 Hamburg
christian.decker(@)haw-hamburg.de
Office hours: to be arranged by e-mail
Current functions
Acting Head of the Department of Business
Period of office: May 2023 – ongoing
Deputy head of the Department of Business
Period of office: March 2023 – August 2027
Elected deputy member of the department council
Period of office: September 2021 – August 2023
Member of selection committee “Master of Science International Business”
Period of office: Intakes 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Previous functions
Coordinator of programmes “International Business, B. Sc.” (forthcoming, first intake winter semester 2023/24), “Foreign Trade / International Management, B.Sc.” (discontinued, last intake summer semester 2023) and “International Business, M.Sc.”
Period of office: March 2021 – August 2023
Member of curriculum reform commission (fundamental reform of the Bachelor programmes)
Period of office: September 2021 – July 2022)
Elected deputy member of the department council
Period of office: September 2019 – August 2021
Elected member of the university senate (on an interim basis)
Period of office: September 2020 – February 2021
Elected deputy member of the university senate
Period of office: September 2018 – August 2020
Deputy head of the Department of Business
Period of office: April 2011 – August 2015
Elected member of the university senate
Period of office: September 2012 – August 2014
Elected deputy member of the university senate
Period of office: September 2010 – August 2012
Member of curriculum reform commission
Period of office: June 2008 – October 2013
Deputy member of the complaint committee of the Department of Business
Period of office: September 2008 – August 2010 and September 2012 – August 2014
Member of complaint committee of the Department of Business
Period of office: September 2010 – August 2012
Board member and secretary of Alumni network of the Department of Business „Freundeskreis Wirtschaft an der HAW e.V.“
Period of office: April 2008 – Oktober 2009
Co-Mentor of HAW Hamburg Student Consulting
Period of office: September 2007 – February 2011
Member of the committee for granting honorific titles
Period of office: October 2010 – September 2012 and October 2012 – September 2014