Jens Christian Nielsen

Christian Nielsen, Ph.d., is Professor of business models and corporate reporting. Christian is a global thought leader in the design of innovative and scalable business models. His work combines business model design with corporate performance and benchmarking, which is at the core of the newest developments in sustainability/CSR/ESG reporting standards as well as state-of-the-art auditing principles. He is also the founding Editor of the Journal of Business Models as well as Editorial Board member of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Journal of Behavioural Economics and Social Systems. Since initiating the establishment of the Business Design Lab in 2011, over 400 companies ranging from start-ups and SMEs to multinationals with a global presence have seen the value of collaborating with Christian and his research team. The contributions of the research have led to published works in leading international scholarly journals. This reflects the broad international research network of Christian which spans Europe, the US, Australia and Asia.