Edward de Bono has had faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, London , Cambridge and Harvard. He is widely regarded as the leading authority in the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.
He originated the concept of lateral thinking and developed formal techniques for deliberate creative thinking. He has written fifty-six book, which have been translated into thirty-four languages , has made two television series and there are over 4,000,000 refernces to his work on the Internet