Profile of Roland Berger

Prof. Dr. h.c. Roland Berger is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Munich. Prior to his founding of the firm initially known as Roland Berger & Partners in 1967, Berger was employed as a consultant and finally partner at a leading American consulting firm in Milan and Boston.

Today, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants has grown to become one of the world's leading strategy consulting firms with 32 offices in 23 countries. The company has a total workforce of currently 1.700, who generated sales of approximately 550 million EUR in 2005.

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants advises leading international industry and service enterprises as well as public institutions on all issues of business management – from strategy, new business models and processes, to organizational structures and information and technology strategies.

Since 1996 Berger has been a Lecturer and since 2000 Honorary Professor for Business Administration and Management Consulting at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus. Furthermore, Berger is a member of the Board of Trustees of the ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Erfurt and of the board of the best European business school, Insead, in Fontainebleau.

Berger was appointed by former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to the Expert Commission on the Development of Hostile Takeover Rules and to the Expert Group on the Reform of German Bundesbank Structures. He was appointed by German former Federal President Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog to the President's Advisory Council for Innovation. Berger is a member of the Partners for Innovation initiative launched by former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Convention for Germany, in cooperation with Olaf Henkel and Roman Herzog.

In December 2000 Roland Berger received the Carl S. Sloane Excellence in Management Consulting Award by the American Management Consultant Federation.

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• ifo Institute for Economic Research
• Partners for Innovation