Peter Drucker is thought of around the world as the seminal thinker, writer, and lecturer on the contemporary organization.

Drucker was born in 1909 in Vienna, Austria and was educated there and in England. He took his doctorate in public and international law while working as a newspaper reporter in Frankfurt, Germany.

He then worked as an economist for an international bank in London.

Drucker went to the United States in 1937. He began his teaching career as professor of politics and philosophy at Bennington College and for more than twenty years he was professor of management at the Graduate Business School of New York University.

The recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, Peter Drucker has, since 1971, been Clarke Professor of Social Sciences at Claremont Graduate University. Its Graduate Management School was named after him in 1984.

He is Honorary Chairman of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management.

Drucker is the author of more than thirty books which deal with society, economics, politics and management. He has also written a novel, an autobiography and a book on Japanese painting.

He is married and has four children and six grandchildren.

Bibliography:
'Concept of the Corporation', New York 1946 John Day
'The New Society', London 1951 Heinemann
'The Practice of Management', New York 1954 Harper & Row
'Managing for Results', London 1964 Heinemann
'The Effective Executive', New York 1967 Harper & Row
'The Age of Discontinuity', London 1969 Heinemann
'Managing in Turbulent Times', New York 1980 Harper & Row
'Adventures of a Bystander', New York 1998 John Wiley

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