Michael Schwall

Biography

Dr. Michael Schwall is a social innovation strategist and CEO of Dr. Michael Schwall Social Innovation & Strategy as well as a Senior Consultant of Bayer Foundation. Currently he is dealing with building, funding and supporting social enterprise ecosystems in the health and agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.
For a number of years, he has been active with in Bayer in developing business strategies for Africa. He started his carrier as a plant physiologist and a plant biotechnologist at the University of Freiburg, Germany and the University of Adelaide, South Australia. After managing several startup companies in plant biotechnology and vegetable seeds Michael worked for a German company as a biotechnologist and a breeder in maize, vegetable and canola.
When joining Bayer he worked in chemical research, global regulatory affairs and marketing in Germany and the USA.