Roger L. Martin is a professor emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where he served as dean from 1998 to 2013 and as the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute from 2013 to 2019. In 2013, he was named Global Dean of the Year, and in 2017, he was named the world's number-one management thinker.

Martin's newest book is "When More is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency". His previous eleven books include "Creating Great Choices," co-authored by Jennifer Riel; "Getting Beyond Better," written with Sally Osberg; and "Playing to Win," co-authored by A.G. Lafley, which was named Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50. Martin has also written 28 articles for the Harvard Business Review.

Martin received a bachelor's degree with a concentration in economics from Harvard College in 1979 and a master's degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School in 1981. He is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of many global companies and originally hails from Ontario, Canada. He now lives in south Florida with his wife, Marie-Louise Skafte.