Change & Innovation in Governance7th Singapore Corporate Governance Week

Dr. Roger Barker is a consultant specialising in Corporate Governance and Board Effectiveness. Between 2008 and 2016, he was Director of Corporate Governance and Professional Standards at the Institute of Directors (IoD).

In October 2015, he was appointed as a UK representative on the European Economic and Social Committee, the EU consultative body. He is Senior Consultant at the Institute of Directors, Senior Advisor to the Board of the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) and Chairman of the ecoDa education committee. He is a board member of European Women on Boards ASBL and a visiting lecturer at the Said Business School (University of Oxford), Cass Business School and UCL (London).

He has worked as an external adviser on corporate governance for a number of large companies and international organisations, including the EBRD, IFC and the Asian Development Bank.

Dr. Barker’s book - Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties: Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe – was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He is also the author of the IoD’s main guide to the role of the board, The Effective Board: Building Individual and Board Success (Kogan Page, 2010).

During the first part of his career, Dr. Barker spent 13 years as an investment banker, in London and Zürich, with UBS and Bank Vontobel. He is the holder of a Doctorate on corporate governance from Oxford University, where he was a Lecturer at Merton College, and also has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in economics, finance and political science from the universities of Cambridge, Southampton and Cardiff.