Prof. Dr. h.c. Roland Berger is founder and now Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. He studied business administration in Munich and Hamburg.

Roland Berger was a lecturer in marketing and advertising at the Technical University of Munich from 1971 to 1972. He has been a guest professor at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus since 1996, and honorary professor for business administration and management consulting since 2000. He is a member of the Councils of Ludwig Maximilian University and the University of Music and Performing Arts (both in Munich). Furthermore, he serves on the board of the renowned INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France (and Singapore), and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich. He also sits on the advisory and supervisory boards of several international companies, such as The Blackstone Group, New York; Fiat Group, Turin; Prime Office AG, Munich; Komatsu, Tokyo; and Sony Corporation, Tokyo.

Roland Berger is the Honorary Consul General of Finland in Bavaria and Thuringia. He has also contributed to several books and authored numerous articles and other publications.