Bundesverband Alternative Investments e.V. (BAI)

As Academic Director, Prof Dr Rolf Tilmes (Deputy Chairman) is responsible for all executive education activities in the areas of Finance, Wealth Management and Sustainability Management at the EBS Executive School of the EBS University of Business and Law, Wiesbaden/Rheingau (EBS). He was also Dean of the EBS Business School and Vice President of EBS University. His teaching and research activities focus on finance and sustainability management.
Since 2004, he has been responsible for the EBS-BAI continuing education cooperation in the fields of private equity, hedge funds / liquid alternatives, infrastructure investments and commodities, which he designed together with the BAI. Since 2016, he has developed the compact study programmes Sustainable & Responsible Investments, Corporate Sustainable Finance, Impact Investing, ESG Performance Management and - most recently - Sustainability Reporting as well as a large number of company-specific training courses on sustainable finance. The Sustainable Finance compact study programmes are open to BAI members as partners at special conditions.

Prior to his academic career, Rolf Tilmes worked for Booz & Company for over eight years as a consultant and member of the management board in the financial services sector, gained several years of experience as a board member of a multi-channel insurance broker in a private equity venture with Goldman Sachs and is a board member of an investment company.

Rolf Tilmes studied business administration at EBS in Rheingau, in Paris/France and Glendale, AZ/USA, completed an MBA at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School in Chicago/USA and received his doctorate from EBS in 1999.


Prof. Dr. Tilmes is responsible for the departments education and events.

 

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