Roger Martin has served as Dean of the Rotman School of Management since September 1998. He is also a professor of Strategic Management, holds the Premier’s Chair in Competitiveness and Productivity and is Director of the AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the school. His research interests include Integrative Thinking, Business Design, Corporate Social Responsibility and Country Competitiveness. He writes extensively on design, has written seven Harvard Business Review articles and published four books.

In October 2009, Roger was named one of the world’s 50 most influential living management thinkers in The Times (London, UK). He was also cited for his work in developing the Integrative Thinking model at Rotman, and was the only business school Dean named to The Times’ list. In 2007, he was named a BusinessWeek “B-School All-Star” as one of the 10 most influential business professors in the world. BusinessWeek also named him one of seven “innovative Gurus” in 2005. A year earlier, he won the Marshall McLuhan Visionary Leadership Award.

Martin serves on the Boards of Thompson Reuters, Research in Motion, The Skoll Foundation, the Canadian Credit Management Foundation, Social Capital Partners and Tennis Canada. He is also a trustee of The Hospital for Sick Children and chair of the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress.

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Read Roger Martin’s guest blog post What is Innovation – Really?