Dr. Nicole Mau is full Professor at the swiss E.H.E. University. Nicole was top executive with the REWE group (one of the largest retailers in Europe with over Euro 53 bio. turnover and more then 350,000 employees) prior to this. Her positions included: establishing the department for business consulting and business development; international project management for top-strategic projects in several countries.

Nicole is co-founder of the international and interdisciplinary Start Up Smart City Concepts which develops intelligent, sustainable concepts for metropolitan regions and cities where ESG criteria are treated in an integrated manner.

With her international survey on globalization (supply, product quality, collaboration etc.) which attracted quite some media attention she had several appearances on German TV, radio, and newspapers.

An important milestone highlighting her long history in the ESG topics was her PhD research about Carbon Emission Trading (2004).

In the year 2000 MAU Consulting (mau-consulting.com), a boutique business consulting, was co-founded by Nicole. The management consultancy serves a wide range of ESG projects for family-owned enterprises and large international companies. Beside other industries the conjoint turnover of enterprises consulted in retail/wholesale is over 100 billion USD in the last years. Since 2019 Nicole is Chairwoman of the Global Impartiality Network (GISN) of BSI.

Over the last years she published over 25 academic papers/books.