Biography: Roger L. Martin, MBA

Roger L. Martin has served as the Dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto since September 1998. He holds the Premier’s Chair in Competitiveness and Productivity, and is Director of the AIC Centre for Corporate Citizenship. Previously, Martin spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he served as co-head of the firm for two years. His research work is in Integrative Thinking, Business Design, Corporate Social Responsibility and Country Competitiveness. Martin writes extensively on design, and is a regular columnist for BusinessWeek Online’s Innovation & Design Channel. He has written seven Harvard Business Review articles and published his first book, The Responsibility Virus, in 2002. His next book, The Opposable Mind, will be published in December 2007. In 2004, Martin won the Marshall McLuhan Visionary Leadership Award, and was named one of BusinessWeek’s seven “Innovation Gurus” in 2005. Earlier this year, he was named a BusinessWeek “B-School All-Star” for being one of the ten most influential business professors in the world. Martin serves on the boards of Thomson Corporation, Research in Motion, the Skoll Foundation, the Canadian Credit Management Foundation, Social Capital Partners, and Tennis Canada, and is a Trustee of the Hospital for Sick Children. He received his BA from Harvard College with a concentration in economics in 1979, and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.