The Edward de Bono Foundation is a UK-registered charity in the teaching of serious creativity and constructive thinking skills for the advancement of education, scientific knowledge and research. It is also involved in the sponsorship of innovative concepts in the discipline of human thinking and the processes of human thought.

The Foundation
The Foundation is also established in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Holland,  Malta, Pakistan, South Africa, UAE, and the USA. The Government of China and the President of India have both invited Edward de Bono to run pilots to teach constructive teaching skills in education and business. The Foundation has recently been  established in Pakistan, where Prof Dr Atta-ur-Rahman, the Minister for Higher Education is chairman, and in Malaysia, where the chairman is the ex-Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir.

De Bono Thinking Systems
For more than 35 years De Bono Thinking Systems have been adopted by businesses around the world, studied by governments, promoted by peace institutes, adopted by schools and taught in prisons with outstanding and lasting results. The courses presented by the Foundation use the tools and techniques devised by Dr de Bono and increase individuals' natural thinking abilities - improving decisions, teamwork, creativity and productivity. The process of thinking is given a framework and divided into definite stages in order to make it easier. At each stage there is a clear thinking task to be performed.

About Dr de Bono
Edward de Bono is regarded as one of the world's most outstanding thinkers in the field of teaching of constructive and creative thinking as an explicit skill. A best selling author, Dr de Bono has written 68 books, worked in 45 countries and is referred to as a creative genius. His techniques can change an entire company's or school's performance by teaching children, students and employees to THINK in a more efficient manner. The essence of Dr. de Bono’s work has been to produce thinking techniques that are simple, practical and effective. An example of this is the Six Thinking Hats method, which is now being widely used by major corporations and schools because of its simplicity and power to change thinking behaviour in team and individual performance.

His books have been translated into 34 languages. These include Lateral Thinking for Management, Six Thinking Hats, Serious Creativity, and Teach Your Child How to Think. He has degrees in medicine, physiology, and psychology.  His medical background in biological information systems inspired and enabled him not only to teach thinking but also to design thinking methods. Dr de Bono was a Rhodes scholar and has held faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Harvard.

His methods are now mandatory on the school curriculum in many countries and widely used in others. Over 7.5 million people have used de Bono Thinking Systems in business and education worldwide.

His instruction in thinking has been sought by many organisations; IBM, Prudential, GM, Ford, BT, Boeing, NTT [Japan], NOKIA [Finland],
Mondadori [Italy], Total [France], Siemens [Germany], Ericsson [Sweden] and many others.

The appeal of Dr de Bono’s work is its simplicity and practicality. It can be used by anyone from four year olds to senior executives, people with special needs, the gifted and talented, deprived children and students.

Dr de Bono is currently the chairman of the Council of Young Enterprise Europe which has a membership of 1,500,000 youngsters across Europe, Israel and Russia who set up mini- businesses while at school.

Dr de Bono is regularly ranked among the world's top thinkers. For example, he is number forty on The Times 2007 fifty top thinkers list.

There is even a planet named after him, DE73 which became E.de Bono.

Dr de Bono's own website is www.edwarddebono.com.