Isabel Ebert

Institute for Business Ethics, University of St. Gallen

About the author

Isabel Laura Ebert is a research associate at the research project “Big Data or Big Brother? – Big Data HR Control Practices and Employee Trust”. The research project is lead jointly by the Institute for Work and Employment Research and the Institute for Business Ethics at the University of St. Gallen, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Gabriel Kasper and Dr. Des. Simon Schafheitle are also part of the doctoral team, under the leadership of Prof. Antoinette Weibel, Prof. Isabelle Wildhaber & Prof. Christoph Schank

Isabel’s PhD on ethical questions regarding data disclosure by companies to governments is supervised by Prof. Florian Wettstein at the Institute for Business Ethics and Prof. Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford). She holds a MA in International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies from Goethe University Frankfurt and a BA in Politics and Management from University of Konstanz and Sciences Po Paris. She is currently a visiting researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

Articles by this author

Big Data for people management

The worker’s voice needs to be strengthened to overcome ethical pitfalls when using Big Data for people management. Interview with one of the researcher.