Lu Wei Author

Ulrich Steger is Alcan Professor of Environmental Management at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland, and Director of IMD’s Forum for Corporate Sustainability Management and Corporate Governance Research Initiative. He directs major partnership programmes with DaimlerChrysler and Allianz. He holds an Honorary Professorship for International Management at the Technical University Berlin and was formerly a professor at The European Business School (Germany), a Harvard University Fellow (USA) and guest professor at St Gallen University (Switzerland). Elected to the German Bundestag (1976–84), he was Minister of Economics and Technology for Hesse. As a board member of Volkswagen, he was in charge of environment and traffic matters and the implementation of a worldwide environmental strategy. He has published extensively, most recently Corporate Diplomacy: Strategies for a Volatile World (John Wiley, 2002). Fang Zhaoben is Dean of the Business School and Professor of Finance and Statistics at the University of Science and Technology of China and former Dean of the Mathematics Department. He has led and chaired many research projects funded by international organisations and the China National Science Foundation. He is a member of the American Statistics Association and Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is the author of more than ten books and many papers published in China and abroad. Lu Wei is Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China Business School. He is active in management consulting and corporate training and has been involved in many international projects including the "Renewable Energy Business Development Training in China" programme, sponsored by the W. Alton Jones Foundation and the World Wide Fund for Nature. He was formerly a management consultant at Anhui Management Development Centre, which was sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency. Lu Wei has written and translated extensively, and has recently translated Ulrich Steger’s The Strategic Dimension of Environmental Management (USTC Press, 2002).