Professor Robert Garratt

Email: garratts@btconnect.com

3 Beresford Terrace London N5 2DH UK Tel: + 44(0)20 7226 2403 Fax: 7354 3743

Bob Garratt is a company chairman, academic, and consultant on corporate governance, board, director, and organisational development, and strategic thinking. He is based in London, England and among his many varied projects, he has taken effective intelligence across the world.

His extensive experience of board issues on five continents covers many types of organisation from large corporates to family businesses and professional practices, from para-statals to not-for-profits, and from central governments to local communities. He has used Rhodes' TIP with hundreds of directors to introduce them to one of his pioneering ideas - their strategic role as the brain of the firm.

See his books The Fish Rots From The Head: The Crisis in our Boardrooms (1996); Developing Strategic Thought (ed) (1994); Learning to Lead (1991); The Learning Organisation: Developing Democracy At Work (2000); and Twelve Organising Capabilities: Valuing People At Work (2000). His new book Thin On Top: Why Corporate Governance Matters will be published in January 2003.

In 2002 Bob won the annual Shareholder Value corporate governance essay prize sponsored by the European Business Forum and PwC/IBM.

He is Visiting Professor in Corporate Governance at The Management School, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London; and Senior Associate, The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge.

He is a director of Board Performance Ltd: chaired Media Projects International in London; and chairs Organisation Development Limited in Hong Kong and Singapore.

He is a Founder Member of The Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance. He is on the Professional Standards Committee, the Chartered Accreditation Board, Examinations Committee, leads the Organising for Tomorrow and Developing Strategic Thought programmes, of the Institute of Directors, London.

His firm ODL runs the IoDHK Diploma Programmes in Hong Kong. He has been a faculty member of the Swedish Academy of Directors’ International Board and Director Development Programme, Stockholm. He helped form the China-EEC Management Programme in Beijing in 1983 (the first Chinese MBA programme), and the ASEAN-EU Management Centre in Brunei Darussalam in 1992. He helped found The Global Coaching Partnership network for directors; and The Learning Symposium group. He has worked with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority on effective corporate governance for Banking Supervisors.

He is Past Chairman of the Association for Management Education and Development, and led the management education side of both the Faculty of Management and Community Education, Ulster College, Belfast; and The Architectural Association School, London.