Our Team
Our team members come from varying academic backgrounds, ranging from seasoned business professionals to academics from various disciplines. These diverse backgrounds, experiences and skills of our team members enrich our research and comprehensive understanding of the global economy and feed directly in our project – World Balance Sheet – resulting in a publication that meets the highest professional and academic standards.
Active fellows contribute to our project, typically by working independently on the analysis of specific asset classes, and submitting academic papers. These work items and their scope are being well defined by our program management and may be completed part-time, complementary to any full-time role the fellow may have, within weeks or, in other cases, few months.
Within WorldBalanceSheet.org, fellows enjoy various career opportunities, developing to Senior Fellows or to Distinguished Fellows, even with the opportunity to be elected into board roles.
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Clemens Deutsch, Chairman
Clemens Deutsch, M.Sc., CFA, acts as Chairman of the Board since August 2023. In his role he oversees and steers the overall direction and the activities of WorldBalanceSheet.org. Furthermore, he leads the major project “World Balance Sheet Edition 2”.
He joined the organization in 2019 and contributed to World Balance Sheet Edition with his analysis on global pension underfunding. During his professional career Mr. Deutsch has focused on theory and practice of (inter-)national financial accounting standards and financial theory. As a Senior Consultant of a leading Big Four he advises international institutional investors on mergers, acquisitions and transactions. He holds a master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Cologne and gained international experience during his studies at the Financial University of Moscow.
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Dr. Harald Deutsch, founder and board member
Dr. Deutsch, M.D., M.Sc., built his career in strategy consulting. He has been advising governments and companies in twelve countries for more than two decades. In this capacity, he worked as a partner, managing director, vice president and global practice leader for three of the world’s leading consulting firms. He also served as a non-executive director on various supervisory boards. Dr. Deutsch now focuses his work on non-profit scientific NGOs. He founded worldbalancesheet.org in 2019 and continues to serve as a board member.
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Lars Deutsch, M. Sc., Chief Information Officer
Lars Deutsch, M.Sc., acts as Chief Information Officer since August 2023. In this role, he sets the overall technology direction of Worldbalancesheet.org. He oversees the organization’s digital activities, including website and document management system. He orchestrates the international communication model, and acts in person as administrator of Worldbalancesheet.org’s IT systems. Already in 2019, he joined Worldbalancesheet.org as one of the earliest members. Due to his strong contribution to World Balance Sheet 1.0, published in 2020, he has acted as Senior Fellow since 2020. Throughout his professional life, Mr. Deutsch has focused on military grade IT systems and information technology. As Cyber IT management officer, he enables and operates IT systems in highly security sensitive environments. In this role, he continuously reflects technology top-notch developments, following strictest methodologies and standards of military grade IT administration. He holds a master’s degree in psychology of the University of German Armed Forces, Munich, and has studied Electrical Engineering at the University of German Armed Forces, Hamburg.
Manuel Erlach, Fellow
Manuel Erlach, M.Sc., is a fellow at WorldBalanceSheet.org. He joined the organization in 2024 and contributes to the project “World Balance Sheet Edition 2”. During his professional career Mr. Erlach has focused on theory and practice of (inter-)national financial accounting standards and financial theory. As a Senior Consultant of a leading Big Four he advises international institutional investors on mergers, acquisitions and transactions. He holds a master’s degree in accounting & finance from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
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Macio Minnemann, Fellow
Macio Minnemann, M.Sc., is a fellow at WorldBalanceSheet.org. He joined the organization in 2024 and contributes to the project “World Balance Sheet Edition 2”. During his professional career Mr. Minnemann has focused on developing strategies and processes for fast-growing start-ups as well as multinational companies. As Senior Venture Development Manager at a “Unicorn” start-up in the renewable energy industry he develops and implements new processes and thus turns ambitious growth strategies into scalable long-term solutions.
He holds a Master of Science (M.Sc) in International Management from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. During his studies he gained international experience in Brazil & Portugal at leading local institutions.
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