Reinhard Meckl

　　Prof. Dr. Reinhard Meckl is holding the chair for International Management at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. After studying economics and doing his PhD studies in business administration at the University of Regensburg Prof. Meckl worked in the central department for strategic planning of Siemens AG, Munich, an internationally operating corporation in the electro- and electromechanical industry, with a focus on managing international M&A projects. In 2000 he joined the University of Jena, Germany and took a chair for International Management before changing in 2004 to the University of Bayreuth. In addition to the professorship Reinhard Meckl is director of the Bavarian academic center for China and guest professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology. He is vice chairman of the board of the German Association for M&A and chairman of the M&A working group of the Schmalenbachgesellschaft. Since January he is co-editor of the journal “corporate finance biz”. The focus of his research is on M&A and value-based management