Dr. Roger Barker
Head of Corporate Governance, Institute of Directors (IoD), United Kingdom.

Following initial training as an economist, Roger spent around 13 years in various senior roles in investment banking in the UK and Switzerland. His main positions were those of equity strategist and chief operating officer of research at UBS, and head of investment banking marketing at Bank Vontobel. In 2004, Roger moved to Oxford University, where he completed a doctorate on corporate governance, and was Stipendiary Lecturer at Merton College, Oxford. He was also an adviser on corporate governance to the EU Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. Roger joined the IoD in July 2008, and is currently a member of the policy committee of the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa). His forthcoming book - Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties: Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe – will be published by Oxford University Press at the end of 2009.