Medical Director & CMO, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy - Endowed academic chair on Sustainability, Psychology & Finance
Short Bio:
Stefan Brunnhuber is Chair of Psychology and Sustainability at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on intersections between the life sciences and sustainability, in particular the psychology of the Anthropocene, behavioural finance, risk analysis and new forms of financial engineering. He has doctorates in both medicine and socioeconomics and had been holding more than a dozen international visiting professorships in the fields of medicine, finance and sustainability. Since 2010, he has served as medical director and chief medical officer at a German teaching hospital. He is board-certified in two medical specialisms and multiple sub-specialisms. Alongside his work in academia and medicine, he also works as a political and corporate consultant. His positions and memberships (past and present)include: Vice Chair of the European Institute of Medicine; Senator of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) (2015–2020); member of several international working groups for the EASA and EU Commission; founding member of Alma Mater Europaea; trustee of the World Academy of Art and Science (2015–present); full international member of the Club of Rome (2018–present); member of Friends of the Earth; member of the German Free Democratic Party (FDP) and its national economic forum (2020–present); member of the Lancet Commission (2021–2022); member of the German federal government’s Sustainable Finance committee (2022–present). He has over 500 publications and lectures to his name – including Money and Sustainability (2014), a co-authored report from the Club of Rome; The Art of Transformation (2nd ed. 2024); ‘The Open Society – A Pledge for Freedom and Order’ (2019, only available in German); Financing Our Future (2021); Financing Our Anthropocene (2023); ‘Freedom and Coercion’ (2023, only available in German); The Third Culture (2024); ’Financing Developments, Towards a green Bretton Woods 2.0’; (2025)and ‚The Economics of Transformation, A General Theory on Financing our global commons, on money and a Sustainable Development for the 21st Century (2025) – and has delivered multiple international lecture series on these topics. He lives in Dresden, Germany, with his wife and two children. He enjoys yoga, Zen meditation, fasting, sports and gardening. See: www.stefan-brunnhuber.de
