Rajat Gupta
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Rajat Kumar Gupta is the former managing director of McKinsey & Company worldwide. He joined the firm in 1973, and was elected managing director of the firm in 1994, a position he held until 2003. Image:Rajat Gupta.jpg
Gupta is Chairman of the Board of the Indian School of Business and recently was nominated co-chairman of the United Nations Association of the United States of America. He is associated with many other professional and business affiliations, including: Private Sector Representative to the Board of the Global Fund for Aids, Malaria, and Tuberculosis; Chairman of the Board of Associates of the Harvard Business School; and Dean's Advisory Council, MIT Sloan School of Management.
Gupta holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He resides in Westport, Connecticut with his wife and four children.
Gupta is Co-Chair of the American India Foundation (AIF), whose mission is to accelerate social and economic change in India. He is particularly interested in AIF's public health focus area, with an emphases on combatting HIV/AIDS in India.
Gupta was also recently appointed as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special advisor on management reform.
