RSM411H1F - Fall 2015 Instructor Biographies

  


Christopher Kobrak is the Wilson/Currie Chair of Canadian Business and Financial History, and professor emeritus of finance at ESCP Europe, Paris. He holds an MBA in finance and accounting as well as a PhD in business history, both from Columbia University in New York. A CPA, his business experience includes public accounting and international finance for a multinational pharmaceutical company. An International Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University, he serves on the editorial boards of several business history journals. His publications include Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present and European Business, Dictatorship and Political Risk, 1920-1945 (edited with Per Hansen), as well as journal articles on a wide range of business and financial topics.


   Joe Martin is Director of Canadian Business and Financial History. He joined the Rotman Faculty in 1995. Prior to that, he was a partner in Deloitte Consulting for many years. While there he was managing partner of the Canadian practice for 12 years and Chair of the global practice for a decade. A graduate in history from the University of Manitoba and the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School he has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Winnipeg. He is a Past President and Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Ontario and a Past President of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants as well as a recipient of the Canadian Association of Management Consultant's Golden Jubilee Award.