David Bosshart has been CEO of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for business and society since 1999. The Institute is an independent European think tank that focuses on the retail trade and the social environment in which this operates (the GDI was founded by the pioneering European retailer Gottlieb Duttweiler in 1962). David Bosshart has worked for trading companies and in management consulting, education and scientific research. His activities focus on the future of consumption and social change, management and culture, globalisation and political philosophy. As CEO of the GDI, he has authored numerous international publications and is a multilingual speaker who is much in demand in Europe, the USA and Asia as a keynote speaker. His analyses and lectures are commissioned by multinational and national enterprises in the trade, consumer goods and services sector and by federations and institutions in the fields of science and research.

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