Josef Wieland holds the chair of institutional economics, organizational governance, integrity management, and transcultural leadership at the Zeppelin University (ZU) in Friedrichshafen, Germany. He serves also as the director of the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin (LEIZ, ZU)). He is the initiator and president of the German Forum Compliance and Integrity (FCI). He is member of the Accreditation Council of Banknote Ethics Initiative (BnEI). He served as the former chairman of the German Network of Business Ethics (DNWE) and is currently the chairman of DNWE's advisory board. He is member of the International Research Advisory Board of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He received the Max Weber Prize for Business Ethics of the BDI (Federation of German Industries) in 1999. In 2014, he received the highly estimated State Research Prize for Applied Research from the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.