President, Peter Drucker Society Europe

Dr. Richard Straub, was born 1946 in Steyr, Upper Austria. After completion of his studies in law he worked several years in the Austrian nationalized industry (Alpine Montan AG). He joined IBM in 1973 and following a number of staff assignments, he took the responsibility for building up the IBM PC business in Austria. Begin of an international IBM career in 1992 as assistant general manager PC for IBM Europe, Middle-East and Africa based in Paris and then moving to the role of regional director for Eastern Europe. In 1994 Richard Straub took over the worldwide responsibility for IBM internal Education in the fields of Sales, Marketing and Industry training, based in La Hulpe, Belgium. In 1996 he was nominated IBM Chief Learning Officer based in White Plains and Paris. In 2001 he moved back into a line management role as the European head of a global innovation unit (learning solutions) and retired from IBM in 2005, after 32 years of service. During the last 10 years of his IBM tenure Richard Straub represented IBM in a number of Industry initiatives with the European Commission as Chair of the Career Space Consortium (future ICT skills) and the eLearning Industry Group, today European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) and in 2005 presiding the Open Innovation Strategy and Poliy Group (OISPG). Since 2006 a self-employed "portfolio worker" with part-time leadership roles in international nonprofit organizations such as Member of the Executive Team at the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) and Secretary General of the European Learning Industry Group and (ELIG). He also became advisor to the Chairman of IBM Europe. More recently Richard Straub has founded of the Peter Drucker Society of Austria which organized the „First Global Peter F. Drucker Forum, Vienna“ in 2009. Beginning of 2010 he also became the president of the newly established Peter Drucker Society Europe. 

Websites

Peter Drucker Society http://www.druckersociety.at/index.php

EFMD http://www.efmd.org/

ELIG http://www.elig.org/