the firm in 2003, and has been honorary chairman since 2010. Since 1996, Roland Berger has held a visiting professorship at TU Munich and since 2000 an honorary professorship in business administration and management consulting at Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus. He was a close advisor of Gerhard Schröder, beginning when Schröder was the Minister-President of Lower Saxony and continuing through his tenure as Chancellor of Germany. Berger reportedly declined an offer to become Minister of Economy in 1998 when Schröder became Chancellor because he wanted to remain independent. Berger is also the founder of the Roland Berger Foundation for Human Dignity. Furthermore, Berger is a founding partner and chairman of London-based RiverRock European Capital Partners (formerly BLM Partners) which he established with Florian Lahnstein, Gero Wendenburg and Jason Carley. Thomas Middelhoff left the firm in November 2010. In November 2012 Michel Péretié, former CEO of the Corporate and Investment Banking Division of Société Générale until January 2012, joined RiverRock as partner and CEO. Berger served as a member of the Advisory Council of INSEAD from 2011 to 2017, and as a member of the supervisory board of the pharmaceuticals and healthcare company Fresenius SE from 2008 to 2016. He is an honorary member and former member of the International Advisory Council of Bocconi University. In 2015, he was appointed Singapore's honorary consul general in Munich. Bibliography References 1937 births Living people Businesspeople from Berlin German chairpersons of corporations