Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency

Bob Garratt is a company chairman, academic, and consultant on corporate governance, board, director, and organisational development, and strategic thinking. He chairs Board Performance Limited. He is a member of the Global Coaching Partnership network and a Business Partner within The Success Group in the UK. His extensive experience on five continents covers many types of organisation from large corporates to family businesses and professional practices. Over some 25 years he has developed boards and directors ? Chairmen, Managing Directors, Chief Executives and high potential senior executives ? in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. The major industries he has been involved with are financial services, telecommunications engineering, high-science, health provision, defence electronics, design, media and government. He is a Founder Member of The Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance. He is on the Professional Standards Committee, the Chartered Accreditation Board, Examinations Committee, leads the Organising for Tomorrow and Developing Strategic Thought programmes, and has contributed to the distance learning programme, of the Institute of Directors, London. His firm ODL runs the IoDHK Diploma Programmes in Hong Kong. He is a faculty member of the Swedish Academy of Directors? International Board and Director Development Programme, Stockholm. He helped found the Institute for Research in Corporate Governance, Paris. He helped form the China-EEC Management Programme in Beijing in 1983 (the first Chinese MBA programme), and the ASEAN-EU Management Centre in Brunei Darussalam in 1992 for directors, and of The Learning Symposium group. He works with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency on effective corporate governance for Banking Supervisors. He is Visiting Professor in Corporate Governance at The Management School, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London; and Senior Associate, The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge. He is Past Chairman of the Association for Management Education and Development and led the management education side of both the Faculty of Management and Community Education, Ulster College, Belfast; and The Architectural Association School, London.