Friederike Schröder-Pander obtained a PhD in applied mathematics at Hamburg University, Germany. She worked several years in IT where she got varied experience in project management, analysis, coaching, change and process management.

Since June 2008, she works as a lecturer at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School within the Operations and Technology Management Competence Centre. She is academic lead of the Centre for Excellence “BPMNetwork”. She teaches modules in the executive master class BPM, and in MBA- and other executive programmes. Her main research interests are situated in the field of Business Process Management and Business-IT alignment.