He was one of the 27 Ambassadors for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009. De Bono held the Da Vinci Professor of Thinking chair at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona, US. He was a professor at the University of Malta, the University of Pretoria, the University of Central England (now called Birmingham City University) and Dublin City University. ĭe Bono held faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge (where he helped to establish the university's medical school), London and Harvard. He then gained a PhD degree in medicine from Trinity College, Cambridge, an honorary DDes (Doctor of Design) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and an honorary LLD from the University of Dundee. He represented Oxford in polo and set two canoeing records. Following this, he proceeded as a Rhodes Scholar in 1955 to Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained an MA in psychology and physiology. Edward's College, Malta, he then gained a medical degree from the University of Malta. Life and career Įdward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was born in Malta on. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote many books on thinking including Six Thinking Hats, and was a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools. Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono ( – 9 June 2021) was a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and broadcaster.
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