ROGER L. MARTIN was named the world’s number one management thinker in 2017 by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. He serves as a trusted strategy adviser to the CEOs of companies worldwide, including Procter & Gamble, Lego, and Ford.

Martin is a Professor of Strategic Management, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, where he served as dean from 1998 to 2013. In 2013 he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business-school website, Poets & Quants.

Martin is the author of twelve books, including Creating Great Choices, written with Jennifer Riel; Getting Beyond Better, written with Sally Osberg; and Playing to Win, written with A.G. Lafley, which won the Thinkers50 Best Book Award for 2013. In addition, he has written thirty articles for Harvard Business Review.

Martin received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in economics, in 1979 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981. He lives in South Florida with his wife, Marie-Louise Skafte.