Robert Ian Tricker


Robert Ian Tricker is a British academic, business author, and expert in corporate governance who wrote the first book to use the title corporate governance in 1984 based on his research at Nuffield College, Oxford. He was also the founder-editor of the research journal Corporate Governance: An International Review.
Tricker was the founder-editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review and holds honorary professorships at The University of Hong Kong, where he served as Professor of Finance in the Business School from 1986 to 1996, the Open University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Early life, military service and education

Tricker was born in 1933 and left King Henry VIII Grammar School in Coventry at 16. He qualified as a chartered accountant at 21. He served as an officer in the Royal Navy and then studying at the Harvard Business School and Oxford University.

Career

At the start of his career, Tricker served as financial controller for a manufacturing company.
Tricker became the first professor of management information systems at the University of Warwick. He then returned to Oxford as Director of the Oxford Centre for Management Studies and to a Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he undertook the research that led to Corporate Governance.
Tricker was awarded a doctorate by the UK Council for National Academic Awards, and has served on the Councils of both the Institute of [Chartered Accountants in England and Wales] and the Chartered [Institute of Management Accountants|Institute of Chartered Management Accountants]. In 1984 he set up the Hong Kong Management Development Centre, and was appointed Professor of Finance at the University of Hong Kong, a post he held until 1996.
He later became a member of the editorial board of Corporate Governance: An International Review, one of the judges in the annual Hong Kong Institute of CPA's Best Corporate Governance Disclosure Awards competition, and holds honorary or adjunct professorships of three universities. He is an emeritus associate of Aon - Regional Corporate Governance Practice based in Hong Kong.

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