Joerg S. Hofstetter is President of the International Forum on Sustainable Value Chains (ISVC), faculty member of Business School Lausanne (BSL), and lecturer at University of St. Gallen and Leuphana University Lüneburg. His work, revolving around sustainability and the management in multi-tier, multinational, multi-institutional value chains with particular attention on sub-supplier management, was published widely in both international scientific journals as well as practitioner-oriented journals and books. He has been working closely together with government, public and private organizations. Prior to serving the Chair of Logistics Management at University of St. Gallen as vice director for many years, he worked at Lufthansa Cargo and ITT Automotive in Asia, North America and Europe. He holds a PhD in management from University of St. Gallen and a MSc in Engineering Management as well as a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from University of Stuttgart.