Roger Falk
Sir Roger Falk (1910-)
1973 Bio Note [1]
Sir Roger Falk, OBE was born in 1910 and was educated at Haileybury and Geneva University. At 19 he joined a family business but left it to work in South Africa. He returned after four years in the Indian branches of the business, which covered merchanting, advertising and shipping, to head up the family concern until the outbreak of war in 1939, during which he served in the RAF.
After the war he sold out to become director-general of the British Export Trade Research Organisation and joined P-E in 1952 to start its marketing practice. He is now Chairman of the P-E Consulting Group, and of the Central Council for Agricultural and Horticultural Cooperation and has been a part-time member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission since 1965.
Sir Roger was knighted in 1969 for services to industrial management. He wrote the Pelican paperback The Business of Management published in 1961 and now in its fourth edition.