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HSG Foundation thanks all the benefactors
The HSG Foundation’s purpose is to support the strategic development of the University of St.Gallen. It wants to strengthen HSG as one of Europe’s leading business universities that is engaged in the global competition for talented students, creative young academics and committed professors, and to enhance its profile. It emerged from the HSG Alumni Foundation as an autonomous charitable foundation in 2013 and is jointly run by graduates (HSG alumni and alumnæ), benefactors and representatives of the University. In the year under review, the HSG Foundation’s activities focused on the preparation of the educational concept, the construction and the further funding of the HSG Learning Center. The building designed by the renowned architect Sou Fujimoto is intended to become a new, innovative place of learning and provide an environment for trailblazing didactic forms. The HSG Foundation intends to completely fund the project by means of donations. The realisation of the novel Learning Center and the implementation of the educational concept are expected to cost a total of approx. CHF 63m.
Board of trustees Dr. Paul Achleitner (President) Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ehrenzeller (Vice-President) Dr. Urs Landolf (Delegate) Prof. Dr. Tami Dinh Michael Hilti Mathieu S. Jaus Andreas Kirchschläger Georg Schaeffler Dr. h.c. Thomas Schmidheiny Urs Wietlisbach
Management Ernst Risch is responsible for the operative management of the Foundation as its Managing Director. Donations by private individuals, foundations and companies constitute an increasingly more important supplement to the resources from basic public funding. They enable HSG to launch innovative projects in order to assume a leading role in teaching and research in the future, too. Whether this concerns chairs, scholarships or infrastructure: thanks to the generous, traditional commitment of alumnæ, alumni and friends of HSG, substantial developments towards today’s University of St.Gallen could be initiated and implemented. We would like to thank all the benefactors for their generous support. For the privately funded HSG Learning Center, more than CHF 59m had already been pledged by late July 2021. Eight million are still lacking for the planned overall funding of CHF 60m. The homepage hsg-stiftung.ch lists all the benefactors of the HSG Learning Center. hsg-stiftung.ch | kontakt@hsg-stiftung.ch
Initial and major benefactors of the HSG Learning Center Paul Achleitner b to v Partners AG Raymond J. Bär Credit Suisse Diethelm Keller Group Angela and Manfred Dirrheimer Ernst Göhner Foundation Fishing Club Felix Grisard
