Edward de Bono
Maltese physician and author
Edward de Bono was a Maltese physician and author who coined the term lateral thinking and wrote many books about how we think.
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Born 1933 in Malta, Malta Died 2021
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About Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono was born in Floriana, Malta, in 1933 and died in 2021. Besides writing, he worked as a physician, an inventor and a consultant. He is known for introducing the term lateral thinking, and for arguing that schools should teach thinking on purpose. He held faculty positions at Oxford, Harvard and Cambridge. His more than 80 books include The Mechanism of the Mind and Six Thinking Hats.