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Rajat Gupta
Senior Advisor
Over the past 30 years at McKinsey & Company, Inc, Rajat has directed a significant number of client projects over a broad range of industries including telecommunications, energy, financial services, and consumer goods aimed at helping companies develop new product/market strategies and reorganize for improved effectiveness and operations capabilities. McKinsey & Company has over 80 locations in 45 countries worldwide, serving two-thirds of the Fortune 1000. Rajat is currently the Senior Partner Worldwide of McKinsey & Company, Inc and is a Senior Advisor to TeleSoft.
Rajat served as the Managing Director Worldwide of McKinsey from 1994 to 2003 and was the first foreign-born partner to head McKinsey and the youngest and only partner to have been elected to three consecutive three-year terms. Prior to this, he was McKinsey’s Chicago Office Manager since 1989 after joining the Chicago Office in 1987. Prior to this, Rajat headed McKinsey’s Scandinavian Offices after assuming leadership in 1981. He originally joined the Firm's New York Office in 1973 after graduating from HBS.
Rajat is associated with many educational, professional and business organizations, including Chairman of the Board of the Indian School of Business, Chairman of the Board of Associates of the Harvard Business School, Co-Chair of Pan IIT Alumni Board, Co-chair of the American India Foundation (AIF), Co-Chair of the United Nations Association of America, Chairman of the India AIDS Initiative of The Gates Foundation, Advisory Board, Kellogg School of Management, Dean’s Advisory Council, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, Dean’s Advisory Board, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Board of Overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College, Board of Governors of the Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Trustee of the University of Chicago, Yale President’s Council, Board of the India Education Initiative, Board of the Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis, Board of the Global Health Council, Dean’s Council, Harvard School of Public Health, World Economic Forum Foundation Board, and the United Nations Commission on the Private Sector and Development.
Rajat received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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