Roger Martin has served as dean of the Rotman School of Management since September 1, 1998 and has accepted a third-term which will finish June 30, 2014. Previously, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he served as co-head of the firm for two years.

He writes extensively for newspapers and magazines including Financial Times, BusinessWeek, Washington Post, Fast Company and The Globe & Mail. For Harvard Business Review, he has written twelve articles and authors a regular blog. His books include The Responsibility Virus (2002), The Opposable Mind (2007), The Design of Business (2009), and the forthcoming Fixing the Game (May 2011), plus two books co-authored with Mihnea Moldoveanu (The Future of the MBA (2008) and Diaminds (2009)).

In 2010, he was named by BusinessWeek as one of the 27 most influential designers in the world. In 2009, he was named by The Times and Forbes.com as one of the 50 top management thinkers in the world (#32). In 2007 he was named a BusinessWeek 'B-School All-Star' for being one of the 10 most influential business professors in the world. BusinessWeek also named him one of seven 'Innovation Gurus' in 2005.

He serves on the Boards of Thomson Reuters Corporation, Research in Motion and the Skoll Foundation, and is Chair of Tennis Canada.

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

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