Robert Ian Tricker

Robert Ian (Bob) Tricker (born 1933) is a British academic, business author, and expert in corporate governance who wrote the first book to use the title corporate governance in 1984 based on his research at Nuffield College, Oxford. He was also the founder-editor of the research journal Corporate Governance: An International Review.

Tricker was the founder-editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review and holds honorary professorships at The University of Hong Kong, where he served as Professor of Finance in the Business School from 1986 to 1996, the Open University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Tricker became the first professor of management information systems at the University of Warwick (1967–1970). He then returned to Oxford as Director of the Oxford Centre for Management Studies (1971–79) and to a Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford (1979–1984), where he undertook the research that led to Corporate Governance (1984).

Tricker was awarded a doctorate (D.Litt.) by the UK Council for National Academic Awards, and has served on the Councils of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants. In 1984 he set up the Hong Kong Management Development Centre, and was appointed Professor of Finance at the University of Hong Kong, Inquiry into the Prescription Pricing Authority, for the Minister of Health, HMSO, London 1977 Governing the Institute; a study on the governance of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, ICAEW, 1983 The Company Secretary in Hong Kong's Listed Companies, Hong Kong Institute of Company Secretaries, 1995 (with Jessica Leung and Kelly Lee) Good Practice in corporate governance – a research paper for the United Nations Development Program, Republic of Korea, 1998