Prof Bob Garratt: Chairman
Email: bob.garratt@usb.ac.za
The Centre is chaired by Prof Bob Garratt, international
Corporate Governance expert, author and professor extraordinaire at
the USB.
Prof Bob Garratt is a company chairman, consultant and academic
working on corporate governance, board and director performance,
and strategic thinking issues. He is based in London and works on
five continents. His consulting experience of board and business
issues covers organisations from large corporates to family
businesses, professional practices, parastatals, non-profit
organisations, central governments and local communities.
He is a founder member of The Commonwealth Association for
Corporate Governance. He is on the Chartered Accreditation
Committee, Examinations Board, leads the Developing Strategic
Thought programmes, and is an External Examiner of the Institute of
Directors, London. He helped to form the China-EEC Management
Programme in Beijing in 1983 (the first Chinese MBA), and The
Learning Symposium group. He has worked with many financial
services institutions including the Saudi Arabian Monetary
Authority on corporate governance for Banking Supervisors, and is
working with the IMF in Washington on its governance.
He is visiting professor at the Cass Business School, City
University, London, where his work spans the Centre for Research in
Corporate Governance, and the Centre for Leadership, Learning and
Change. He is professor extraordinaire at the University of
Stellenbosch Business School.
In 2002 he won the Shareholder Value corporate governance essay
prize sponsored by the European Business Forum and PwC/IBM; and in
2004 The Academy of Corporate Governance, Hyderabad, Writing
Excellence prize. His books include: The Fish Rots From The
Head: The Crisis in our Boardrooms (1996 and 2003);
Developing Strategic Thought (ed) (1994 and 2003);
Learning to Lead (1991); The Learning
Organisation: Developing Democracy at Work (2000); and
Twelve Organising Capabilities: Valuing People At Work
(2000). Thin On Top: Why Corporate Governance Matters
was published in 2003. He is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of
Journal of Business Studies; Development and Learning in
Organisations; Action Learning, and Organisations and People.