Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss author and businessman. He began his writing career as a novelist in 2002, but he is best known internationally for his bestselling non-fiction The Art of Thinking Clearly, for which The Times has called him "the self-help guru the Germans love". Born in 1966 in Lucerne, Switzerland, he obtained an MBA in 1991 from the University of St. Gallen and a PhD in economic philosophy in 1995. In 1999, he co-founded getAbstract, a publisher of book summaries and article abstracts. In 2003, Diogenes Publisher published his first novel, F�nfunddreissig, followed by Und was machen Sie beruflich? in 2004, Himmelreich in 2006, Wer bin ich? and Turbulenzen in 2007 and Massimo Marini in 2010. The major themes in Dobelli's novels are the meaning of success and the role of randomness in business and in life. Dobelli is the author of The Art of Thinking Clearly, originally published by Carl Hanser Verlag in 2011, which was an instant success, entering Germany's Der Spiegel Bestseller list as number 1. It was the bestselling non-fiction book in Germany and Switzerland in 2012. 

July 15th, 1966 in Lucerne (Age 58)