Manuel Wörsdörfer

Associate Professor
Computer Science

Dr. Wörsdörfer is an associate professor at the Maine Business School and School of Computing and Information Science and an associate member of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. Before joining UMaine, he was an instructor at the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism and a member of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, as well as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’ and a member of the Centre for Business Ethics at Goethe University Frankfurt. He also worked as a visiting research fellow at Beijing University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Toronto, and York University. Manuel’s current research focuses on business and human rights, AI ethics, big tech and antitrust, and climate finance. Most of his research has been presented at prestigious international conferences, such as the annual conferences of the Australasian Business Ethics Network, the European Business Ethics Network, and the Society for Business Ethics, and published in peer-reviewed journals, such as AI and Ethics, Business and Society Review, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Economic Ideas, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Ethics Education, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, OEconomia, Philosophy of Management, Philosophy & Technology, The Antitrust Bulletin, Transnational Legal Theory, and Journal for Business, Economics, and Ethics.

Areas of Expertise

Behavioral and happiness economics, economic psychology and neuroeconomics
Business Ethics and Human Rights
Climate mitigation and adaptation policy
Constitutional economics, neoliberalism and social market economy
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and corporate citizenship
Economic policy
Engineering Ethics
Sustainable finance and finance ethics.

Education

Habilitation, Business Ethics, Goethe University, Germany (2011-2015)
Ph.D., Business Ethics, Goethe University, Germany (2008-2011)
M.A., Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth, Germany (2004-2007)
B.A., Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth, Germany (2001-2004)
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