Professor Gerhard Schnyder holds a BA (Licence) in Political Science from the University of Lausanne, a Masters degree (Diplôme d’études approfondies) in Political Science from the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, and a Masters in Social Science Data Analysis from the University of Essex. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of Lausanne in 2008. 

Since 2007, Gerhard has been a Postdoctoral Researcher and then a Research Associate with the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He then worked as a Research Fellow at SOAS University of London and the University of Bath. He was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader at King’s College London (2009-17), before joining Loughborough University London on secondment. He took on the role of Director of the Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship in 2019. 

Gerhard has been involved in various scholarly societies, including the Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW / ASSP), serving as General Secretary for three years; and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) where he was a Network Convenor (2012-22). Since then, he has been the organiser of the out-reach initiative, Social Science for the Real World (SS4RW).