每个月跨越9000公里，他在复旦管院寻找“下一程答案”

每个月往返法兰克福和上海，十多个小时的航程、紧凑的课程与状态切换，在旁人看来或许是一段颇为辛苦的旅程。但李齐宽常常在途中意识到，自己能够拥有进入复旦管院读书的机会，是一件很幸运的事。

作为复旦大学-华盛顿大学EMBA项目24班学生，这已是他第二次与复旦结缘。这位来自德国的汽车行业管理者，曾在复旦大学完成经济学硕士学习。此后，他深入汽车行业，在不同国家、不同企业与组织环境之间辗转。多年之后成为复旦管院的学生，对他而言，既是一次“回来”，也是职业走到新阶段之后的一次重新出发。

▲苏州开学移动模块《战略管理》课程学习

目前，作为VinFast欧洲公司金融解决方案总监，李齐宽参与推动企业融资与租赁方案的研发落地、搭建与金融服务机构的合作关系，并支撑公司欧洲市场增长战略。在此之前，他曾任职于大众汽车金融服务公司、Benteler、Fisker、LucidMotors等企业，助力在欧洲各市场搭建并完善金融服务体系，将其融入数字化出行生态。

不同的工作经历，让他长期处在汽车、金融、技术与移动出行的交叉地带，也需要不断面对不同的企业文化和组织逻辑。

“在创业型企业里，速度、灵活和快速决策尤为重要；进入大型集团后，则需要更多考虑治理体系、风险控制以及复杂的利益相关方协调。”长期处在这样的环境中，李齐宽慢慢发现，管理很少有一套可以直接复制的答案。“一个方法在某家公司行之有效，换一个组织、市场或文化背景，可能就需要重新调整。”

与此同时，汽车行业本身也正在经历翻天覆地的变化。电动化、数字化客户体验和新型移动出行模式不断重塑行业。中国汽车品牌加速进入欧洲，德国车企在中国也面对着软件、数字体验和创新速度带来的新压力。长期身处其中，李齐宽看到的不只是产品之间的竞争，也开始更加关注企业如何理解市场、组织团队、建立信任，并在复杂环境中作出判断。

“我希望从执行层面的领导力，进一步走向真正负责转型和变革。”这也是他选择在这个阶段重回校园的重要原因。短期来看，他希望进一步提升自己在数字整合和移动出行合作中的领导能力；更长远地，他期待承担更加国际化的管理职责，在商业模式创新与可持续增长中发挥更大的作用。

▲C24班开学典礼合照

Every month, as he travels back and forth between Frankfurt and Shanghai — over ten hours of flight, packed courses, and constant switching between states — the journey may look like a grueling one to outsiders. Yet Schwippel often realizes, mid-journey, how fortunate he is to have the opportunity to study at Fudan University School of Management.

As a student of Class 24 of the Fudan University–Washington University EMBA Program (hereafter the "Olin Program"), this is his second connection with Fudan. A German automotive-industry executive, he completed his master's degree in economics at Fudan University years ago. Since then, he has gone deep into the automotive industry, moving across countries, companies, and organizational environments. To become a student of Fudan University School of Management once again after so many years is, for him, both a "return" and a fresh start as his career reaches a new stage.

▲Study for the Strategic Management Course at Suzhou Residency

Currently, as Director of Financial Solutions at VinFast Europe, Schwippel works to develop and roll out corporate financing and leasing solutions, build partnerships with financial-services institutions, and support the company's European growth strategy. Previously, he worked at Volkswagen Financial Services, Benteler, Fisker, and Lucid Motors, helping establish and refine financial-services systems across European markets and integrate them into the digital mobility ecosystem.

These diverse roles have placed him, for a long time, at the intersection of automotive, finance, technology, and mobility — and required him to continually confront different corporate cultures and organizational logics.

"In entrepreneurial companies, speed, flexibility, and fast decision-making matter most; once you enter a large corporate group, you need to think more about governance systems, risk control, and the coordination of complex stakeholders." Having spent years in such environments, Schwippel has gradually realized that management rarely offers a directly replicable answer. "A method that works well in one company may need to be reworked in a different organization, market, or cultural context."

At the same time, the automotive industry itself is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Electrification, digital customer experiences, and new mobility models are continuously reshaping the sector. Chinese automakers are accelerating their entry into Europe, while German automakers in China face mounting pressure in software, digital experience, and the speed of innovation. Having lived with this for a long time, Schwippel sees more than competition between products — he has also begun to pay closer attention to how companies understand their markets, organize their teams, build trust, and make judgment in complex environments.

"I want to move from execution-level leadership toward truly owning transformation and change." This is a key reason he chose to return to school at this stage. In the short term, he hopes to further strengthen his leadership in digital integration and mobility partnerships; in the longer term, he aspires to take on more international management responsibilities and play a greater role in business-model innovation and sustainable growth.

▲ Group Photo of C24 Opening Ceremony

回忆起自己与上海、复旦的缘分，李齐宽形容“那是人生中最美好、也最塑造自己的几年之一”。复旦大学学习的经历改变了他理解中国的方式，也让他在离开之后，始终希望有机会再回来。

“中国变化得太快了，我仍然有很多东西想要了解。”因此，当职业走到新的节点、需要重新回到课堂时，复旦大学-华盛顿大学EMBA项目成为他的首选。在他看来，这个项目一端是熟悉却始终快速变化的中国环境，另一端圣路易斯华盛顿大学奥林商学院所提供的美国管理教育视角。中美两种管理与商业视角的结合，正契合了他长期在国际化组织中工作的需要。

▲与《运营管理》课程教授张付强合影

重新走进课堂，他也开始重新审视一些过去已经“知道”的事情。让他印象最深的，是《团队与合作》课程中关于“信任”的讨论。作为长期在国际团队和高压环境中工作的管理者，他当然知道团队协作的重要性，但课程让他进一步意识到，信任并非一个模糊的“软性因素”，而是优秀个体能够真正协同起来的基础。此后，他开始更有意识地思考，如何在自己的团队、以及与合作伙伴之间建立信任。

《运营管理》课程也带给他意料之外的收获。原本以为会相对枯燥的一门课，在复旦大学管理学院院长、李达三讲席教授张付强教授清晰、透彻的讲解下变得生动易懂，让他切身感受到一位优秀的老师能怎样带领学生进入原本陌生的领域。“一个好的老师，真的可以让你开始喜欢上原本并不了解的领域。”

▲与《运营管理》课程教授张付强合影

除了课程本身，在复旦管院结识的同学也让李齐宽觉得“不虚此行”。第一次在苏州移动课堂完成小组任务时，大家还在摸索如何理解彼此、形成有效合作；几个月后，每个人已经逐渐知道彼此擅长什么，也能自然地顺着对方的思路继续推进。来自不同国家、行业和专业背景的同学，也不断把新的经验带进课堂。一次战略课程的小组展示，就让李齐宽第一次深入了解过去几乎没有接触过的中国教育行业。

▲苏州开学移动模块《战略管理》小组展示

“成功依靠的不是‘I’，而是‘We’。”在他看来，班级最初是一群各自优秀的个体，而随着一次次课堂讨论、团队合作和课后的相处，彼此之间的默契慢慢建立起来，大家逐渐成为一个真正的团队和朋友。不同文化与行业背景所带来的差异，并没有成为障碍，反而让他不断看到自己原本看不到的世界。

对李齐宽来说，重回课堂的价值，不只在于获得新的知识，更在于不断重新审视“已知”，并在老师与同学带来的不同视角中，重新校准自己的判断。

▲与《团队与协作》课程教授Markus Baer合影

Recalling his bond with Shanghai and Fudan, Schwippel describes those years as "among the most wonderful and formative of my life." Studying at Fudan University changed how he understands China — and left him, even after leaving, always hoping for a chance to return.

"China changes so fast — there is still so much I want to learn." So when his career reached a new turning point and it was time to return to the classroom, the Fudan University–Washington University EMBA Program became his first choice. In his view, one end of the program is a familiar yet ever-changing Chinese environment; the other is the perspective of American management education offered by the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. The combination of these two managerial and business perspectives fits precisely the needs of his long career working in international organizations.

▲《Managing Operations》Class Photo with Prof.Fuqiang Zhang

Back in the classroom, he has also begun to re-examine things he once "knew." What impressed him most was the discussion of "trust" in the Team & Collaboration course. As a manager who has long worked in international teams under high pressure, he certainly understood the importance of teamwork — but the course made him realize that trust is not a vague "soft factor"; it is the foundation that allows talented individuals to truly work in concert. Since then, he has thought more deliberately about how to build trust within his own team and with his partners.

The Operations Management course brought him an unexpected gain as well. A subject he had expected to be relatively dry became vivid and accessible through the clear, penetrating delivery of Professor Zhang Fuqiang, Dean and Li Dasan Chair Professor of Fudan University School of Management, giving him a firsthand sense of how an excellent teacher can lead students into an unfamiliar field. "A good teacher can genuinely make you begin to love a field you previously knew nothing about."

▲《Managing Operations》Group Photo with Prof.Fuqiang Zhang

Beyond the courses themselves, the classmates he has met at Fudan University School of Management have made Schwippel feel that "the trip was well worth it." During the first group exercise in the Suzhou mobile classroom, everyone was still figuring out how to understand one another and form effective collaboration; a few months later, everyone has gradually come to know what each is good at and can naturally build on one another's thinking. Classmates from different countries, industries, and professional backgrounds keep bringing new experiences into the classroom — a single group presentation in the strategy course gave Schwippel his first deep look into China's education sector, an area he had barely encountered before.

▲Group Presentation for the Strategic Management Course at Suzhou Residency

"Success depends not on the 'I' but on the 'We.'" In his view, the class began as a group of individually excellent people; through repeated classroom discussions, team collaboration, and time spent together outside class, the rapport among them has gradually taken shape, and they are becoming a genuine team and, increasingly, friends. The differences in culture and industry background have not become obstacles; instead, they keep revealing worlds he could not otherwise see.

For Schwippel, the value of returning to the classroom lies not only in gaining new knowledge, but more in continually re-examining the "known" and, through the different perspectives brought by his professors and classmates, recalibrating his own judgment.

▲《Teams and Collaboration》Group Photo with Prof.Markus Baer

想要更好地了解李齐宽，长跑或许也是一个很合适的切入点。

跑步这件事，几乎贯穿了他的人生轨迹。小时候，他跟着哥哥和父亲一起跑，心里想着的是证明自己可以跟得上他们，甚至比他们更加努力。高中去美国艾奥瓦州交换时，他加入学校跑步队，开始了更加认真地训练；后来来到复旦读书，校队和上海当地的跑团又把他重新拉回长跑，也让他在陌生的城市里认识了许多朋友。

多年以后，他仍然保持着长跑的习惯。如今，每个月从德国飞到上海，抵达后的第一件事常常还是跑步。对他而言，长跑最重要的意义，并不在于某一场比赛或者某一次突破，而是让他真正理解了积累的价值。“进步很少来自某一个戏剧性的突破。更多时候，它来自一次又一次出现，把该做的事情做好，然后保持耐心。”

▲2022年柏林100公里超马世锦赛

这种对长期积累的理解，也映照着他的职业与学习经历。从德国到美国，再到中国，从不同企业和行业环境之间不断切换，李齐宽似乎总是乐于将自己置于某种“不那么舒适”的新环境中。重回复旦管院之后，课堂上的讨论、来自不同背景同学的观点，也让他一次次重新检查自己已经形成的判断。对他来说，学习并不是为了得到一套标准答案，而是让自己在面对复杂问题时，拥有更多理解和选择的可能。

“我觉得勇敢跳出舒适区，才是成长开始的地方。”完成复旦管院的学习之后，他希望将课堂上的管理工具和思考方式带回工作，在团队领导、长期战略、业务执行和伙伴关系建设中真正发挥作用。更远一些，他也并不排斥有一天再次来到中国工作与生活。

“中国是一个很适合那些喜欢接受挑战的人的地方。”快速发展的市场、激烈的竞争以及不断出现的新问题，在常人眼中或许是压力，但在“长跑者”李齐宽看来，这些也构成了值得不断走近的新风景。

To better understand Schwippel, long-distance running may be a fitting entry point.

Running has run through nearly his entire life. As a child, he ran with his older brother and his father, determined to prove he could keep up with — or even outwork — them both. During his high-school exchange year in Iowa, he joined the school's running team and began training more seriously; later, while studying at Fudan, the university team and a local Shanghai running club drew him back into the sport, and helped him make friends in an unfamiliar city.

Years later, he still keeps the habit of long-distance running. Today, whenever he flies from Germany to Shanghai each month, the first thing he often does after arriving is still go for a run. For him, the most important meaning of running lies not in any single race or breakthrough, but in the value of accumulation it has taught him. "Progress rarely comes from one dramatic breakthrough. More often, it comes from showing up again and again, doing the right things well, and staying patient."

▲100km World Championships in Berlin in 2022

This understanding of long-term accumulation is mirrored in his professional and academic journey. From Germany to the United States and then to China, continually shifting among different corporate and industry environments, Schwippel always seems willing to place himself in new, "not-quite-comfortable" settings. Back at Fudan University School of Management, the discussions in class and the views of classmates from different backgrounds have likewise prompted him, again and again, to re-examine the judgments he has already formed. For him, learning is not about obtaining a set of standard answers, but about giving himself more room to understand and to choose when facing complex problems.

"I believe that bravely stepping out of one's comfort zone is where growth begins." After completing his studies at Fudan University School of Management, he hopes to bring the management tools and ways of thinking from the classroom back to his work, and to truly apply them in team leadership, long-term strategy, business execution, and the building of partnerships. Looking further ahead, he is not opposed to one day returning to work and live in China again.

"China is a place well suited to those who enjoy being challenged." A fast-growing market, fierce competition, and new problems that keep emerging may look like pressure to most people — but to Schwippel, a "long-distance runner," they also form new vistas worth drawing ever closer to.