Professor Heinrich Liechtenstein is a Professor of Financial Management in the MBA and Executive Programs at IESE Business School and the Academic Director of IESE’s Africa Initiative. He is a Co-founder of Moonfare – a digital platform leading a new era of private equity investing – and supports Moonfare as a Board Member, strategic advisor and Chairman of Asia.
He specializes in entrepreneurial finance, management of wealth and governance of entrepreneurial families. Heinrich is co-author on several publications on private equity. His ongoing research in this field focuses on operational value creation in private equity, impact
investing and governance of entrepreneurial families. As a consultant he collaborated with leading families and financial institutions and serves on the board of family controlled foundations.
Prior to his academic career, Professor Liechtenstein was engaged in the family-owned Liechtenstein Global Trust (LGT) dealing with ultra high net worth individuals. He also advised families within the Boston Consulting Group and established and sold two successful
businesses. Heinrich holds a Ph.D. in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from The Economics School of Vienna, Austria, a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IESE Business School, and a BSc in Business Economics from the University of Graz. Heinrich lives
in Barcelona and Munich.