Bob Tricker

Bob Tricker left school at 16, qualified as a Chartered Accountant, served as an officer in the Royal Navy, was Financial Controller of the British subsidiary of an American steel company, and then studied at Harvard and Oxford Universities. His research as a Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, produced the book Corporate Governance (1984), the first with that title. He has held professorial appointments at universities in Hong Kong, Melbourne, New York, Oxford, Sydney, and Warwick....See more

Bob Tricker left school at 16, qualified as a Chartered Accountant, served as an officer in the Royal Navy, was Financial Controller of the British subsidiary of an American steel company, and then studied at Harvard and Oxford Universities. His research as a Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, produced the book Corporate Governance (1984), the first with that title. He has held professorial appointments at universities in Hong Kong, Melbourne, New York, Oxford, Sydney, and Warwick. He now lives in Devon, continues to write, and has been the Deputy Launch Authority for the Torbay lifeboat and crewed on Brixham's heritage sailing trawlers. See less