Councillor Biographies

Prabhu GuptaraProf. Prabhu Guptara, Executive Director, UBS Wolfsberg Centre

Professor Prabhu Guptara is a recognised authority on the impact of technology on strategy, on leadership issues and on long-range global trends. Widely known as a speaker and broadcaster, he is or has been Chairman, CEO or Board Member of several companies and organisations. As Executive Director of Organisation Development at Wolfsberg (a subsidiary of UBS), he works with people throughout the world to identify new ideas that may bring value to UBS. This includes running "Think Tanks" on a wide variety of market and global issues, and managing the Distinguished Speaker Series. A member of the Jury of numerous literary, business and management competitions in the UK and the Commonwealth, and a guest contributor to newspapers and to radio and TV channels in the UK as well as media in other parts of the world, he continues to supervise PhD research and lecture to MBA classes, and is included in Debrett's People of Today.