Martin Hilb is currently Chairman of the Board Foundation and its International Center for Corporate Governance, President of the Swiss Institute of Directors and Member of the Executive Commitee of the Global Network of Director Institutes, President of the Supervisory Board of the Research Institute for International Management at the University of St. Gallen, Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, Member of the Board of Directors of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels, Belgium, and Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Corporate Governance in Africa at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.   His former positions include Professor of Management and Managing Director of the Institute for Leadership and HRM as well as Founder and Academic Director of the PhD Programme in International Business at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia, Director of Essex Chemie AG and HR Director Europe, Africa and the Middle East of Schering Corporation USA. He has teaching experience at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, University of Toronto, Canada, University of Dallas/Texas, USA, and Singapore Management University, Singapore. Martin Hilb contained a Gold Medal Award in Corporate Governance "...for exceptional contributions to the principles and practices of quality in governance" by the International Academy of Wuality in the USA in 2010.