Julia Binder — Co-Founder
Julia believes that leaders create the most value when they understand the signals of change shaping their industries and use them to imagine bold new futures for their organizations. As Professor of Business Transformation at IMD and Director of the Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Business, she works with executives worldwide to build future-ready businesses that innovate, adapt, and lead with purpose. Her work has earned her recognition as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2025) and a spot on the Thinkers50 Radar list (2022). Julia is co-author of The Circular Business Revolution and co-editor of the IMD Playbook on Leading the Sustainable Business Transformation (Wiley, 2024), a collective effort of more than 30 IMD faculty that explores how companies can move from ambition to action. With a PhD summa cum laude in sustainable entrepreneurship from the Technical University of Munich, Julia has spent more than a decade at the crossroads of innovation and sustainability. Before joining IMD, she helped shape the future of impact-driven innovation at EPFL, where she created Tech4Impact, a platform uniting entrepreneurs, corporations, NGOs, governments, and academics to co-create solutions that tackle some of the world’s toughest challenges. Whether in the classroom, on stage, or advising executives, Julia’s work has one red thread: to empower leaders to turn sustainability into a source of transformation, resilience, and long-term success.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Sustainability and Innovation expert focused on business transformation.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Experience: 13 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Sustainability
- Business Strategy
- Innovation
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Career Highlights
- World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2025
- Co-author of The Circular Business Revolution
- Director of the Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Business
Work Experience
IMD Business School
Professor of Business Transformation & Director of the Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Business (4 yrs 6 mos)
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Deputy to the Vice President for Innovation (1 yr 6 mos)
Postdoctoral Researcher (1 yr 3 mos)
Swiss Space Center
Chair of the Swiss Space Center (1 yr 4 mos)
EPFL Tech4Impact
Head of Tech4Impact (3 yrs 3 mos)
FLUXBAU
Co Founder (9 mos)
Technische Universität München
Research Assistant (4 yrs 1 mo)
HPP Strategy and Marketing Consulting
Management Consultant (Intern) (0 mo)
Leo Burnett Group
Account Management (Intern) (0 mo)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Technical University of Munich
Master of Science (MS) at The University of Edinburgh
Communication and Media Studies at Hawaii Pacific University
Kommunikationsfachwirt at IMK Wiesbaden
