Roland Berger

Roland Berger is a Founder of Roland Berger, Munich and has been the Roland Berger GmbH's Honorary Chairman since 2010. Today, Roland Berger has grown to become one of the world's top five strategy consulting firms with 50 offices in 36 countries. The company has a workforce of 2,400 and advises leading international industrial andservice enterprises, as well as public institutions. From the company's foundation in 1967 until 2003, Roland was Chief Executive Officer of the firm, and until 2010 Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Prior to founding his strategy consultancy, Roland was employed as a consultant and ultimately partner at a leading American consulting firm based in Milan and Boston. Roland has been appointed to various expert commissions by several German state governments and the federal government. From 2007 to its dissolution in 2014, Roland was a Member of the High Level Group on Administrative Burdens under the leadership of former Bavarian State Premier Dr. Edmund Stoiber, appointed by the European Commission. Roland is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations, including Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA (Chairman of the Audit Committee), Bad Homburg; Prime Office REIT-AG, Munich (Chairman of the Supervisory Board); RCS Mediagroup S.p.A.(Vice-President), Milan, Italy. Roland also serves on several international advisory boards, including those of Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt, MillerBuckfire in New York and The Blackstone Group in New York. Since 1996 Roland has been a Lecturer and Visiting Professor and since 2000 Honorary Professor for Business Administration and Management Consulting at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus. Furthermore, Roland was appointed a member of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations in 2012. Since 2002, Roland has been on the Business Advisory Council of the State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt and was appointed to the Globalization Council Portugal by the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva. Previously, German President Roman Herzog had appointed Roland to the President's Advisory Council for Innovation. Roland has also actively participated in over 20 federal government commissions under Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. Roland is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations and invests in many private and listed companies as well as startups. Roland was Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Finland in Bavaria and Thuringia from 1996 to 2015. Roland is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Roland Berger Foundation, which he set up personally with an endowment of EUR 50 million. The Roland Berger Foundation is dedicated to the global protection of human dignity and human rights. Each year it confers the Roland Berger Award for Human Dignity. The Foundation also helps gifted children and young people from underprivileged families across Germany and Italy to gain access to the best possible primary and secondary education. Outside work, Roland pursues his interest in modern art and owns a large collection of artworks, mainly by contemporary artists from Europe, the US, South America and China. Roland also loves classical music and supports the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Bavarian State Opera, among others. Roland loves hiking and cross-country skiing, especially in the Swiss region of Engadin. Roland studied business administration in Munich and Hamburg. (MBA from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).