Amin Rajan is the Chief Executive of the Centre for Research in Employment and Technology in Europe (CREATE) – a pan-European network of prominent researchers undertaking high level advisory assignments for the UK Government, City institutions, multinational companies and international bodies such as the EU, OECD and ILO.

He has also acted as a senior consultant to companies such as ABN-AMRO, Aegon Group, Barclays, BP, BT, Citigroup, Corning, Deutsche Bank, EDS, Fiat, Ford, GSK, HSBC, IBM, ICI, ICL, KPMG Legal & General plc, Lloyds TSB, Merrill Lynch Investment Management, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Motorola, Proctor & Gamble, Prudential, Rolls Royce, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal SunAlliance, Shell, and UBS.

As well as appearing on radio and television regularly, he contributes feature articles to The Financial Times, Global Investor, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The London Evening Standard. He has published numerous books and articles on leadership, business cultures, socio-economic forecasting, globalisation, new technologies, diversity and new business models.

He has presented the results of his work at over 100 major events in the USA, Europe and Asia-Pacific in the last five years. His expertise covers, amongst others, leadership and new business models in financial services. He is the author of 11 best selling research reports:

		Leading People (1996)
		Employability: Bridging the Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality (1998)
		Competing Through Skills (1999)
		Good Practices in Knowledge Creation and Exchange (1999)
		Fund Management: New Skills for a New Age (2000)
		Tomorrow’s Organisation: New Mindsets, New Skills (2001)
		Harnessing Creativity to Improve the Bottom Line (2001)
		Revolutionary Shifts, Evolutionary Responses (2003)
		Harnessing Workforce Diversity to Raise the Bottom Line (2003)
		Raising the Performance Bar (2004)
		Hedge Funds: a catalyst reshaping global investment (2005)
		Comply and Prosper (2006)
		Tomorrow’s Products for Tomorrow’s Clients (2006)
		Towards Enhanced Business Governance (2006)

He is a visiting professor at the Cass Business School, London Metropolitan University, Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter University, President of the Scientific Committee at Audencia - Nantes Ecole de Management in France, and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Asia-Pacific Business.

In 1998 he was awarded the Aspen Institute’s Prize in leadership. It is a subject on which he has done extensive research involving some of today’s outstanding business leaders. In two resulting publications, he has developed a close link between leadership, strategy and the emerging business models. His work has proved so influential that he now provides leadership coaching to Chief Executives, executive committees and investment specialists in companies as varied as:

		Anglian Water Group			HSBC Holdings
		Cisco Systems			Invesco
		Citigroup			Merrill Lynch Investment Managers
		Deutsche Asset Management			Pinnacle Insurance plc
		Dresdner RCM			PriceWaterhouseCoopers
		Electronic Data Systems			UBS Asset Management
		Hewitt Associates			Virgin One Account
		IBM

The current focus of his work in two-fold:

		Leadership Dilemmas: how good people make difficult decisions
		Leadership Without Authority: how to influence people over whom one has no advantage of rank, status or power

In recognition of his achievements, he was invited to give five major public lectures in the UK:

		the Jean Monet Lecture on Business in an Integrated Europe (1992)
		the Royal Society of Arts Manufacturing Lecture (1996)
		the Royal Society of Arts Millennium Lecture on Leadership in the Knowledge Age (2000)
		the Royal Society of Arts Midlands Lecture on Leadership in the Age of Dilemmas (2001)
		the Royal Society of Arts Lecture on Diversity and the Bottom Line (2004)

As an economist, he has held significant positions, including:

		Secretary, Economic Group, Cabinet Office, providing weekly briefs to the Prime Minister
		Forecaster, Treasuring Econometric Model, producing forecasts of key macro indicators

He has been active as a:

		Trustee, Board of The Royal Society of Arts
		Trustee, Campaign for Learning
		Member, Government’s Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership
		Fellow, Windsor Leadership Trust