Nigel Roome

Nigel Roome now holds a professorship at Vlerick-Gent School of Management although at the time this essay was written he held the Daniel Janssen Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility at Solvay Business School, Free University Brussels, Belgium and was professor of Corporate Global Responsibility and Governance at TiasNimbas Business School, Tilburg, Netherlands. He is chair of the academic Board of the European Academy of Business in Society. His research interests range from globalization and sustainable development, through the shifting relationship between business and society and the implications for organizational and social change, to management education, skills and competencies. He has published widely and consults companies and governments through his company Capability Dynamics.