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Christian Schopper advises clients on corporate finance-related assignments especially in German-speaking Europe, CEE, the CIS and Russia. Before setting up Corporate Finance Central Europe / CorpFinCE (www.corpfince.com), an advisory boutique, he spent years with Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, UniCredit and Raiffeisen.
Besides holding positions at various boards and advisory councils, he is engaged in academics and management education as a visiting professor for corporate finance, capital markets and banking foremost in Austria and Russia.
Further, he coaches artists and holds regular workshops and lectures on arts management and arts entrepreneurship.
Christian Schopper holds a Doctorate / PhD in Laws and a Doctorate / PhD in Economics, both from the University of Vienna, and an MBA from IMD in Lausanne.