Christoph F-D. Wu

Dr. Christoph Wu is an organizational sociologist with 14 years of business experience in senior investment management and business development roles based out of London, Singapore and New York. After working at the University of Cambridge as a Research Associate and Tutor (Supervisor), he joins Professor Olga Tregaskis to contribute to existing and future research projects in organizational wellbeing and build on his expertise in organizational networks and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) practices in organizations. His research draws from his industry experience and an empirical grounding in practice. He is a CFA UK ESG Investing Certificate and Investment Management Certificate holder.

Christoph's research focuses on organizational networks, emotions and trust in top management teams and on ways to create diverse and thriving work environments through network behaviours. 

Another area of research interest of his is sustainable decision-making in the finance industry, the social studies of accounting and how ESG practices enable organizational change. 

After having transitioned from business back to academia, Christoph completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research examined the organizational networks of central banks. He conducted qualitative fieldwork, developed a novel approach to network analysis of portfolio holdings and consolidated his research in a book on social and organizational networks.

Christoph holds an MSC from the London School of Economics and BSC from the University of Sussex. His graduate research explored the lived experience of corporate culture at an American multinational corporation by applying ethnographic methods. His theoretical influences derive from sociology, network and organization theory and he regularly draws from the original texts.