Speaker Details
Rajat Kumar Gupta
Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
Rajat Kumar Gupta is the Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company. He joined the Firm's New York Office in 1973, and assumed leadership of its Scandinavian Offices in 1981 and the Chicago Office in 1989. He served as the Managing Director Worldwide of McKinsey from 1994 to 2003. In his 34-year career in consulting, Mr Gupta has served many leading companies on a broad set of topics related to strategy, organisation and operations. He has played a thought leadership role in organisational thinking throughout his career, and led the Organisation Practice for the Firm. Mr Gupta is very active in many non-profit institutions focused on education, health and development. He served as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advisor on UN Reform, is an independent Director of Goldman Sachs, Procter & Gamble, AMR Corporation, Harman International, and Qatar Financial Centre, and is the Chairman of the Board of Genpact and New Silk Route Private Equity. He is also on the Board of Rockefeller Foundation and was recently elected a Member of the Supervisory Board of Sberbank. Mr Gupta holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
