Prof. Dr. h.c. Roland Berger
Prof. Dr. h.c. Roland Berger is Chairman of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Munich. He studied business administration in Munich and Hamburg.
Prior to founding his strategy consultancy in 1967, Roland Berger was employed as a consultant and ultimately partner at a leading American consulting firm based in Milan and Boston.
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants has grown to become the number 4 among the world's leading strategy consultancies with 36 offices in 25 countries. The company advises leading international industry and service enterprises as well as public institutions. Its currently 2,000 employees generated sales of more than EUR 600 million in 2007.
Roland Berger was a lecturer in Marketing and Advertising at the Technical University of Munich from 1971 to 1972. Since 1996 he has been a lecturer and since 2000 Honorary Professor for Business Administration and Management Consulting at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus. He is a member of the Councils of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, and of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. Furthermore, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich and a member of the Board of the renowned INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France.
Roland Berger was a member of many expert groups advising various federal and state governments. The Portuguese State President, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, appointed him to the "Globalization Council Portugal". In 2007, Roland Berger was appointed by the European Commission to the "High Level Group of Independent Stakeholders on Administrative Burdens" headed by former State Premier Dr. Edmund Stoiber.
Roland Berger is Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Finland in Bavaria and Thuringia.
He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of his private Roland Berger Foundation. The Roland Berger Foundation is committed to protecting human dignity and human rights worldwide, and to facilitating access to high-quality education for talented young people from weaker social classes in Europe.
Roland Berger is a member of various supervisory and advisory boards of national and international companies, foundations and organizations. These include Fiat Group, Turin, Italy; Telecom Italia, Milan, Italy; Fresenius SE, Bad Homburg; Prime Office AG, Munich (Chairman); FC Bayern München, Munich. He is also a member of various international advisory boards, including Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, and The Blackstone Group, New York, USA.
