AICGS: ABOUT : Professor Roland Berger - AICGS Board of Trustees

Prof. Dr. h.c. Roland Berger, 68, is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Munich. He studied in Hamburg and Munich and holds a degree in business administration from the University of Munich.

Prior to his founding of the firm initially known as Roland Berger & Partners in 1967, Roland 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.

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 Technical University of Munich and of the Munich Academy of Music & Drama. Furthermore, he 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.

Roland Berger is Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Finland in Bavaria and Thuringia.

Roland Berger is a member of various advisory boards and advisory groups. He is committed to his profession in his capacity of Vice Chairman of the Association of Management Consulting Firms (AMCF). He has served several terms as President of the Féderation Européenne des Associations de Conseils en Organisation (FEACO) and of the Bundesverband Deutscher Unternehmensberater BDU e.V.

Roland Berger was appointed by 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 former Federal President Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog to the "President's Advisory Council for Innovation". He was Chairman of the "Commission for Income Reform of the State Government Officials of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia" and member of the "Commission for Issues Relating to the Future of Bavaria and Saxony". Roland Berger was appointed to the "Council of Economic Experts for a Leaner Federal Government" as well as the "Commission for the Development of the Pension Insurance System". He was appointed to the "Baden-Wuerttemberg Forum for Innovation" by State Premier Erwin Teufel and to the "Commission for the Long Term Health of Germany's Social Security System" (Rürup Commission) by the Schröder government. He is a member of the "Partners for Innovation" initiative launched by 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 (AMCF).