Winfried W. Weber (born in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a German economist and management professor. He is director of Mannheim Institute of Applied Management Research at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences with a research focus on new role models of managing and on global family business. Weber is founder of managemendenker.de, an ongoing online survey which ranks the most influential management thinkers in German speaking countries. Weber is President and founder of a non-profit management network, the Peter F. Drucker Society of Mannheim e.V. whose aim is to strengthen the leadership of managers in Germany.
Weber obtained his PhD in economics at Witten/Herdecke University / Reinhard Mohn-Chair for Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Social Evolution