Martin Glaum


Martin Glaum is a German economist and author and has held the Otto Beisheim Endowed Chair of International Accounting at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management since 2014. Before this he held the Chair of International Management, Accounting and Auditing at the University of Giessen in Giessen, Germany. Until 1999 he was a Professor of International Management at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt. He was born in Wetzlar, Germany.

Guest professorships

Glaum is a regular lecturer at international seminars and has also been visiting professor at the following universities:
Glaum is a member of the board and treasurer of the German Association of University Lecturers of Business Administration. He is the Chairman of the Working Group "Financial Instruments" at the German Accounting Standards Committee,. He is the Academic Director of the Working Circle entitled "Corporate Development and International Management" at the Schmalenbach Society of for Business Administration, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association and member of the Board of Trustees of the Esche Schümann Commichau Trust.

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