CEO of Roland Berger

Charles-Edouard Bouée is the CEO of Roland Berger and also responsible for the firm's Asia business. He is a seasoned expert in reorganization, post-merger projects and integration programs, and specializes in disruptive innovation, new technologies and digital transformation. He has fulfilled consulting mandates for leading international companies and organizations globally. Charles-Edouard Bouée was elected CEO of Roland Berger by the partnership in June 2014. He joined Roland Berger in 2001 as Senior Partner in the Paris office, where he headed the Financial Services and Energy & Utility Competence Centers. He became President and Managing Partner of Roland Berger's China office in 2006 and head of the Asia Leadership Team in 2009, responsible for the consultancy's business activities throughout Asia (Greater China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia). As CEO of Roland Berger, he is involved in various business and community organizations in Europe, China and the US. He sits on the Alumni Board of Harvard Business School as well as the Advisory Board of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Charles-Edouard Bouée also holds a Chinese green card, only a few hundred of which are issued each year. In 2012 the City of Shanghai presented him with the Magnolia Gold Award, the highest accolade available to foreigners in Shanghai, in recognition of his services to the city's social and economic development and his services to Chinese-European relations. On January 1, 2017, he was made Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. Charles-Edouard Bouée has authored a number of groundbreaking books on modern management and China, such as China's Management Revolution – Spirit, Land, Energy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). His book Light Footprint Management: Leadership in Times of Change (Bloomsbury, 2013) is an informative guide for managers on how companies can successfully navigate the growing challenges of an ever more uncertain world, both economically and geopolitically.