Marion Festing (PhD) is Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership at ESCP Business School’s Europe’s Berlin campus. She has contributed to ESCP’s development in recent years as the Rector/Dean of the Berlin campus, the former Associate Dean for Research of ESCP Business School and the holder of the Renault Chair of Intercultural Management. Marion has founded ESCP Business School’s Talent Management Institute and the Excellence Centre for Intercultural Management, which both link academic and practitioner communities by creating new knowledge and building platforms for networking and exchange. These topics also reflect Marion's research interests. They are concerned with International Human Resource Management with a special emphasis on (cultural) diversity and inclusion and talent management in various institutional and cultural contexts.
She has written or co-authored over one hundred articles and published in renowned international journals. Marion also serves as the Editor in Chief of the German Journal of Human Resource Management. In terms of teaching innovations she contributed to a MOOC on Intercultural Management and developed the award winning Serious Game Series ‘Moving Tomorrow’ together with Tobias Schumacher. Further, she has served as a keynote speaker, among others, on teaching innovations in intercultural management and international HRM.