Dr. Roger Barker has been Head of Corporate Governance at the Institute of Directors (UK) since 2008. He is also Senior Advisor to the Board of ecoDa (the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations).
Dr. Barker sits on advisory boards at a number of organisations, including the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). He is a visiting lecturer at the Said Business School (University of Oxford), ESSEC (Paris), UCL (London) and the Ministry of Defence (UK), and a former adviser to the EU Economic and Social Committee in Brussels.
Dr. Barker’s recent book - Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties: Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe – was published by Oxford University Press in January 2010. He is also the author (with Dr. Neville Bain) of the IoD’s main guide to the role of the board, The Effective Board: Building Individual and Board Success, which was published by Kogan Page in September 2010.
During the first part of his career, Dr. Barker worked as an investment banker in London and Zürich. He is the holder of a doctorate on corporate governance from Oxford University, where he was a Lecturer at Merton College, and has degrees in economics, finance and political science from the universities of Cambridge, Southampton and Cardiff.
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