title: Christopher Kummer
text: # Christopher Kummer
  
  Christopher Kummer (born March 18, 1975) in Frankfurt) is a German economist, currently serving as a professor of finance at Hult International Business School.
  
  ## Life
  
  After graduating from Benedictine School in Engelberg, Switzerland in 1995 he completed his graduate studies in Strategy and Finance in 1999 at the University of St. Gallen with a dissertation supervised by Georg von Krogh. He received his PhD from the Technical University of Berlin in 2005 with a dissertation on mergers and acquisitions.
  
  From 2004 to 2014 he was a professor at Webster University Vienna where he founded the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA) and began a professional partnership with Michael E. Porter. As an advisor he led the HR Transaction Services unit from 2007 to 2009 at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2012 he is a professor of finance at Hult International Business School.
  
  ## Selected publications
  
  * Mult-headquartered firms. A strategic analysis. 1999.
  * International Mergers & Acquisitions Activity., 2005.
  