Bob Garratt
Professor Extraordinaire at University of Stellenbosch Business School
Biography
University of Stellenbosch Business School
Bob is a ‘pracademic’ – a businessman and director who has always kept one foot in academia to ensure that he keeps his clients’, and himself, honest. He has consulted at the highest levels in some 40 countries and been chairman of consultancies in Hong Kong, Singapore and London. He has worked with the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, and given evidence to the UK Treasury Select Committee on the Restructuring of the corporate governance of the Bank of England. His background spans architectural and community education at the Architectural Association School, London, Ulster College, Belfast, and then into top management and board review and development through The General Electric Company’s action learning-based Developing Senior Managers Programme. He was on the faculties of The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, and Imperial College, London.
He is a Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch and chairs its centre for Corporate Governance in Africa; and he is a Visiting Professor at Cass Business School, London University. He was an External Examiner for the Chartered Director examinations at the Institute of Directors, London; and is Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants. His public awards include the 2015 Outstanding Achievement prize from the Global Forum For Leadership, Organisational Development and Business-driven Action Learning. In 2006 he won the Indian Business Excellence Writing Award and in 2002 he won the European Business Forum and PwC/IBM Shareholder Value Corporate Governance prize.
Together with Sally Garratt and Professor Max Boisot, he created the China-EEC Management Programme – the first Chinese MBA programme – in Beijing in 1983; and in 1992 they created the ASEAN-EU Management Centre in Brunei Darussalam.
Companies
- External Examiner Gulf Cooperation Council Board Development Institute (2019)
- Director Good Governance Development Ltd (2008)
- Director Garratt Learning Services (2008)
- Professor Extraordinaire; Chairman Centre For Corporate Governance in Africa University of Stellenbosch Business School (2006)
- Honorary Visiting Professor Cass Business School (2005)
- Past Master Worshipful Company of Management Consultants (1994)
- Director Garratt Learning Services Ltd (2020 — 2020)
- Advisor on Board Effectiveness and Corporate Governance KPMG LLP (2011 — 2012)
- Visiting Professor The Management School, Imperial College (1997 — 2004)
Videos
Corporations have no mind, no heart and no conscience but boards must ensure a healthy future
Professor Bob Garratt speaking on 'Governance in an Age of Disruption' for Governance Week 2020
CCGI's Global Conf 2021 - The resurrection of entrepreneurship -its role in ESG by Prof Bob Garratt
Global Conference - Developing A New Mindset, Future Of Corporate Governance With Prof Bob Garratt
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