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Charles Hampden-Turner (born 29 September 1934 in London, England) is a British management philosopher, and Senior Research Associate at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge since 1990. He is the creator of Dilemma Theory and co-founder (with Fons Trompenaars) of the Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner Group based in Amsterdam.

Biography

Hampden-Turner was born in London in 1934 and grew up in Cambridge, in a house on the site where Robinson College now stands. He was educated at Wellington College, a military public school attended by his father, and undertook his national service with the same regiment his father had served in, the Suffolk Regiment.

On finishing military service, Hampden-Turner attended Trinity College, Cambridge. He spoke often in the Cambridge Union Society and was elected Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association. During the 1980s he worked as a senior research fellow at the London Business School and was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.