Roger Martin has served as Dean of the Rotman School of Management since September 1, 1998. He is an advisor on strategy to the CEO’s of several major global corporations. He writes extensively on design and is a regular contributor to Washington Post’s On Leadership blog and to Financial Times’ Judgment Call column. He has published numerous books, including: Fixing the Game, Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn From the NFL (2011), The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (2009), The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking (2007), The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-and The Rest Of Us-Can Harness The Power Of True Partnership (2002), and The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future, (with Mihnea Moldoveanu, 2008) and Dia-Minds (with Moldoveanu, 2010).

In 2011, Roger Martin was named by Thinkers 50 as the sixth top management thinker in the world.

In 2010, he was named by Business Week as one of the 27 most influential designers in the world.

In 2007 he was named a Business Week ‘B-School All-Star’ for being one of the 10 most influential business professors in the world.

He serves on the Boards of Thomson Reuters Corporation and Research in Motion and is chair of Tennis Canada.

He received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.