Christoph Metzger studied Business Education at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland where he got his master degree in 1969 as teacher in Business Education and his PhD in 1972. Between 1973 and 1987 he first taught Business Administration, Economics and Law at a High School and then taught as a Senior Lecturer in Business Education at the University of St. Gallen. In 1985 he finished his habilitation on “Formative Evaluation in Higher Education”. In 1987, after a stay as visiting scholar at the University of Texas in Austin, he became Associate Professor of Business Education and Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen and in 1989 Full Professor in the same field. In St. Gallen he taught courses in Vocational Education, Performance Assessment, Learning Strategies, Didactics of Business Education, Marketing, and Research methods.

From 1993 to 1995 he acted as Dean of the School of Business Administration. From 1988 to 2009 he was also Director of the Institute of Business Education and Educational Management at the same University. Since August 2009 he is Professor emeritus of the University of St. Gallen, since 2011 he is Professor of Business Education at the Steinbeis University in Berlin. He was acting as visiting professor at the universities of Vienna (Austria), Innsbruck (Austria), Göttingen (Germany), Berlin (Humboldt, Germany), Pecs (Hungary) and Zürich (Switzerland).

His main interests and activities in internationally oriented research, development and consulting, also shown by his publications, are in the fields of Vocational Education, Higher Education, Curriculum, Educational Evaluation and Performance Assessment, Learning Strategies, and Teacher Training.

Most recent international activities on research and development, consulting and teaching focusing on Asian compared to Western countries have been:

• Conference on School-Enterprise Cooperation in Vocational Education, Yantai Vocational College, China: Speaker and expert.
• Hospitality Program Thailand: Consulting the Ministry of Education.
• Eight-Nation Education research Project (including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, South Korea, Thailand, USA): Member of the steering committee and leader of the project “A Comparative Study of Educational Systems and Secondary to Postsecondary Transitions in Six Nations”, chair of several conferences.
• Six-Nation Education Research Project on Education and economic growth (including China, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, USA, Germany): Member of the steering committee and leader of the project “Vocational education and economic growth”, chair of several conferences.
• Conference on Enhancing Quality and Building the 21st Century Higher Education System, Hiroshima University: Chair and presenter.
• International Conference on 60 Years of Korean Education, Seoul: Achievements and Challenges: Chair and presenter
• Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok and SWISS-Asian Institute of Technology-Vietnam Management Development Programme: Teaching, Counseling a doctoral student.

Main publications in English, related to the activities above, have been:

• Grin, F., Metzger, C. & Grüner, A. (1997). Current Issues in Higher Education. RIHE International Seminar Reports, 10, Academic Reforms in the World: Situation and Perspective in the Massification Stage of Higher Education (pp. 95–126). Hiroshima: Hiroshima University.
• Metzger, C. (1997). Self-Directed Learning in Continuing Education – a Report from Switzerland. In G.A. Straka (Ed.). European views of self-directed learning: historical, conceptional, empirical, practical, vocational. Münster/New York/München/Berlin: Waxmann. S. 6–25.
• Metzger, C., Fujita, H., Law, S.S., Zemsky, R., Berset, J.E. & Iannozzi, M. (2001). Different Paths, Similar Pursuits. The Economic and Personal Potential of Vocational Training and Education in an International Context. Six-Nation Education Research Project: Vocational Training and Education. Studies and Reports, 12, St. Gallen: IWP.
• Metzger, C. (2001, March). Different Paths, similar pursuits. The Economic and Personal Potential of Vocational Training and Education in an International Context. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Washington.
• Metzger, C., Fujita, H., Law, S. S., Zemsky, R., Berset, J. E. & Iannozzi, M. (2004). Vocational Training and Education. In N. F. McGinn (Ed.). Learning through Collaborative Research. The Six Nation Educational Project (pp. 91–145). New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
• Metzger, C. (2005). Different Paths, Similar Pursuits: Alternatives to College-Bounded Secondary Education – the Experience of Switzerland. In Korean Educational Development Institute, & Korea Institute of Curriculum & Evaluation (Eds.), International Conference on 60 Years of Korean Education: Achievements and Challenges (pp. 123-137). Seoul: KEDI.
• Hasanbegovic, J., Zellweger Moser, F. & Metzger, C. (2006). Developing Swiss Students’ Learning Strategies. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 10(4), 90–94.
• Truong Quang Duoc & Metzger, C. (2007). Quality of business graduates in Vietnamese institutions: multiple perspectives. Journal of Management Development, 26, 629–643.
• Metzger, C., Daizen, T., Kin-Yuen Ip, K., Maynard, R., Promboon, S. (2007, December). High School to Higher Education Transition: General and Vocational Education – A Comparative Study of the Role of Secondary and Tertiary Education Practices in Six Nations and the Implications for Policy. Paper presented at the First Conference on the Eight Nations Education Research Project, Chingmai, Thailand.
• Zellweger Moser, F., Hasanbegovic, J. & Metzger, C. (2008). Fostering learning strategies in universities to prepare a self-regulated workforce. International Journal of Human Resources Development and management, 8, 332–345.
• Metzger, C., Maynard, R., Vultaggio, J., Promboon, S., Daizen, T., Kin-Yuen, I., Park, S. Y. (2009, January). Secondary and Post Secondary Education Systems in 6 Countries. Paper presented at the Asian Social Protection in Comparative Perspective Conference. Singapore.