Edward de Bono

Edward de Bono is a Maltese physician, psychologist, and author who dedicated his career to teaching thinking as a deliberate skill. He originated the term "lateral thinking" and developed the Six Thinking Hats method as a framework for structured group discussion and parallel thinking. He authored over 60 books on creative and perceptual thinking, with translations into more than 40 languages, and his methods have been adopted by corporations, governments, and educational institutions worldwide. He held faculty appointments at Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Harvard, and passed away on June 10, 2021.