Christina Mueller

Dr Christina Mueller is an Adjunct Professor at IE with focus in innovation strategy, corporate venturing, and entrepreneurship. She is a trained researcher and scientist who became an entrepreneur, commercializing a piece of fundamental research. By doing so Dr Mueller gained invaluable experience running all operations and major functions of the startup for several years.

She is an experienced mentor to entrepreneurs and founders. Dr Mueller has worked with many startups through their initial stages developing business plan, go to market strategies, corporate governance, funding plans, and more. For several years she has been teaching classes and mentoring cohorts of aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs even before incorporation, enabling decision making and startup team building from the beginning of the corporate journey.

Within the corporate world, she has been working in strategy, business planning & corporate development and strategic project & program management roles. Currently she is working as Director of Strategic Planning in a multinational corporation looking after CEE, CIS, African and the Middle Eastern countries.

Mrs. Mueller focuses her energy on big picture thinking while keeping a close eye on implementation strategy, execution, and details within. In her mind strategy, planning and execution are closely linked. Through her global experience she understands the influence of local nuances in business and entrepreneurship well and is aware of the impact of diversified sets of cultures and values into the same.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Director, Strategic Planning, Business Operations, Government Compliance, CEEMA, London Stock Exchange Group, 2021 – Present

• Director, Strategic Planning and Business Operations, MEA, Refinitiv (formerly the Financial and Risk Business of Thomson Reuters), 2018 – 2021

• Director, Strategic Planning and Execution, MENA, Thomson Reuters, 2016 – 2018

• Director, Strategic Projects for Governments, MENA, Thomson Reuters, 2015 – 2016

• Business Development Manager, The Impact Center, University of Toronto, Canada, 2014 – 2015

• CEO and Co-Founder, Insight Nanofluidics, Canada, 2009 – 2014

• Research Assistant, University of Toronto, 2009 – 2014

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor, IE Business School, Department of Entrepreneurship, 2017 – Present

• Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto, 2009 – 2014

• Research Assistant, Philips University of Marburg, 2008

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Executive MBA, IE Business School, 2015

• PhD, Chemistry, University of Toronto, 2014

• Diplom in Chemistry (MSC equivalent), Philips University Marburg, 2008