Gustav Theile studies international business, Korean, politics, and international literatures in Tübingen, Germany. He is a co-founder of the International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics and has been involved with the pluralism in economics movement for over two years. In the German part of the movement, he is mainly involved in the press work and writes articles for newspapers and magazines from time to time.

He works as a research assistant at the Global Ethic Institute in Tübingen where he deals with questions of ethics in business and economics. In 2016, he participated in the first Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management (GEM) for an Economy of Life organized by the WCC and the World Communion of Reformed Churches, in collaboration with the Institute for Diakonia and Management, and hosted by the Hong Kong Christian Council.

Gustav Theile is a member of the Moravian Church in Germany.