Christian Decker is a Professor of International Business at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. His teaching focuses on international and corporate finance as well as academic research and writing. He has specialised in didactical concepts that are ground-ed on competency-based education as well as educational media. His focus lies on the development and execution of course scenarios deploying e-learning, blended learning and the inverted classroom model (flipped classroom) as well as problem-based, case-based and research-based learning. Previously, he spent ten years within the corporate and investment banking division of a large German bank and worked three years as consultant and evaluator in the corporate finance department of a Big Four auditing firm. Christian Decker graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in Business Economics from the University of Bremen, Institute for World Economics and International Management. He was awarded the Hamburg Teaching Award 2012 for his academic lecturing achievements and e-learning activities.
Rita Werner, M. A. , is co-founder of iCADEMICUS, an educational media service provider. As an author and editor she writes and edits textbooks. She has specialised in different forms and applications of language and text. Furthermore, she runs Communi-cat, a company for text and marketing consulting. Her fields of expertise include strategic advisory, branding, naming, corporate and crisis communication. Previously, she spent eleven years at international advertising agencies as creative director and copywriter in Frankfurt and Hamburg. Prior to that, she was employed as a trained journalist and editor at a German newspaper and an environmental magazine. Rita Werner studied Sociology, Economics and American Literature at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a Fulbright scholar, she received a Master of Arts in Political and Social Science from the New School University, New York City, USA.
