3 Notable alumni of Witten/Herdecke University
Updated: June 08, 2026 EliteDegrees
Witten/Herdecke University is 1182st in the world, 1st in North America, and 68st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 3 notable alumni from Witten/Herdecke University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Witten/Herdecke University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Otto Scharmer
1961-. (aged 65)
university teacher
economist
Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-founder of the Presencing Institute and its u-school for Transformation. He focuses on awareness-based action research with leaders across various sectors, anchored in the concept of presencing, a method of "learning from the emerging future", which he introduced in his books Theory U (2007) and Presence...
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2. Christoph Vogelsang
1985-. (aged 41)
poker player
Christoph Vogelsang is a German professional poker player from Sassenberg, Münster.
3. Markus Giesler
1976-. (aged 50)
university teacher
economist
editor
Markus Giesler is a consumer sociologist and Professor of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University. His research examines how ideas and things such as products, services, experiences, technologies, brands, and intellectual property acquire value over time, technology consumption, moral consumption, and the role of multiple stakeholders in the market creation process. Before doing his PhD in...
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