Prof. Dr. Christoph Barmeyer
“Our differences are our strength”
Prof. Dr. Christoph Barmeyer, a banker and graduate in international cultural and business studies, is Chair of Intercultural Communication at the University of Passau. He has completed various qualifications as an intercultural trainer (SIIC Portland, USA) and systemic consultant (ISB Wiesloch). He has been working as an intercultural senior consultant since 1995. His clients include German, French, Swiss companies from sectors such as automotive, banking, chemicals, energy, IT, insurance. From 2000-2008 he had intensive contacts with French people as a university lecturer at the French business school Ecole de Management Strasbourg with responsibility for personnel and projects.He assumes that cultures emerge in dialogic reciprocal processes. Therefore, cultural differences are not only a problem, but a resource that can be used in complementary and synergetic ways by detecting and combining strengths. He is married and lives between Bavaria (Germany) and Provence (France).
Key Training and Consulting Aspects
- German-French management
- General intercultural awareness
- Intercultural leadership
- Intercultural team building
- France, Québec, Germany
Publications:
- 2025: Book “Landmarks in Intercultural Studies: Biographies. Concepts. Positions” (Palgrave Publishing)
- 2024: Article in Journal of Industrial and Business Economics: “Organizational integration of highly skilled migrants? Social worlds as multiple cultures dismantling conventional framings“
- 2024: Book “Key Questions and Inspiring Answers in Cross-Cultural Management” (Edward Elgar Publishing)
- 2021: Book “Constructive Intercultural Management” (Edward Elgar Publishing)
- 2019: Article in the International Journal of Cross Cultural Management: “When the ‘well-oiled machine’ meets the ‘pyramid of people’: ARTE“
- 2019: Article in the International Business Review: “Facilitating intercultural negotiated practices in joint ventures: The case of a French–German railway organization“
- 2019: Article in the International Business Review: “Informal information flows in organizations: The role of the Italian coffee break“
- 2016: Book “Intercultural Management: A Case-Based Approach to Achieving Complementarity and Synergy” (Palgrave Publishing)
- find more publications here.


