Peter F. Drucker

Clarke Professor of Social Science & Management
Claremont Graduate School

Peter F. Drucker is a writer, teacher and consultant.

He has published 29 books which have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thirteen books deal with Society, Economics, and Politics. They are: The End of Economic Man (1939, 1995); The Future of Industrial Man (1942, 1994); The New Society (1949, 1992); America's Next Twenty Years (1957); The Landmarks of Tomorrow (1959, 1996); The Age of Discontinuity (1969, 1992); Men, Ideas & Politics (Essays) (1971); The Unseen Revolution (1976; re-issued under the title The Pension Fund Revolution, 1995); Toward the Next Economics (Essays) (1981); The New Realities (1989); The Ecological Vision (Essays) (1992); Post Capitalist Society (1993); Drucker on Asia: A Dialogue with Isao Nakauchi (1996). Thirteen books deal with Management. They are: Concept of the Corporation (1946, 1992); The Practice of Management (1954, 1992); Managing for Results (1964, 1992); The Effective Executive (1966, 1992); Technology, Management & Society (Essays) (1970); Management Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1974, 1992); Managing in Turbulent Times (1980, 1992); The Changing Word of the Executive (Essays) (1982); Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985, 1992); The Frontiers of Management (Essays) (1986, 1997); Managing the Nonprofit Organization (1990); Managing for the Future (Essays) (1992); Managing in a Time of Great Change (Essays) (1995); Two books are novels: The Last of All Possible Worlds (1982), and The Temptation To Do Good (1984). One book is autobiographical: Adventures of a Bystander (1979,, 1991; 1994). Mr. Drucker has also co-authored Adventures of the Brush: Japanese Paintings (1979). He has made four series of educational movies based on his management books. Mr. Drucker is a frequent contributor to magazines, and was a columnist for The Wall Street Journal from 1975 to 1995.

Since 1971, Mr. Drucker has been Clarke Professor of Social Science & Management at the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California, which named its Graduate Management Center after him in 1987. From 1979 to 1985 he also served as Professorial Lecturer in Oriental Art at Pomona College, one of the Claremont Colleges. He was the 1994 Godkin Lecturer at Harvard University.

Mr. Drucker is a consultant specializing in strategy and policy for both businesses and non profits, and in the work and organization of top management. He has worked with many of the world's largest corporations and with small and entrepreneurial companies; with non profits such as universities, hospitals and community services; and with agencies of the U.S. Government as well as the Free-World governments such as those of Canada and Japan.

Mr. Drucker has received honorary doctorates from American, Belgian, Czech, English, Japanese, Spanish and Swiss universities. He is Honorary Chairman of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for NonProfit Management.

In the past, Mr. Drucker has variously been Economist for an international bank in London; American Economist for a group of British and European banks and investment trusts; American Correspondent for a group of British newspapers; and Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont. From 1950 to 1971 Mr. Drucker was Professor of Management at the Graduate Business School of New York University which, in 1969, awarded him the university's highest honor, the Presidential Citation.

Born in 1909 in Vienna, Austria, Mr. Drucker was educated in Austria and in England. He holds a Doctorate in Public and International Law from Frankfurt University (Germany). He is married and has four children and six grandchildren.