Rajat Gupta
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| Rajat Gupta | |
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| File:Rajat Gupta - WEF Davos 2009.jpg | |
| Born | December 2, 1948 Maniktala, Calcutta |
| Occupation | Consultant, Management expert |
| Spouse(s) | Anita Mattoo Gupta |
'Rajat Kumar Gupta (Hindi: रजत कुमार; born December 2, 1948) is the current special advisor on management reforms to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. He is also an independent director at Goldman Sachs, is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago and Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the American India Foundation.[1]
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[edit] Early life
Rajat Gupta was born to B.C.Gupta, who had three other children. His father was an advocate. His mother taught at a Montessori school.
When he was five the family moved to Delhi, where his father went to start the Hindustan Standard. His father died when Rajat was sixteen and his mother died when he was eighteen.
He was an outstanding student at Modern School. He was admitted to the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi on a scholarship and did his mechanical engineering there in 1971.[2]
[edit] Career
Rajat Gupta joined McKinsey & Company in 1973 and went on to become the firm's first managing director born outside of the US, completing three full terms at the coveted position.[3] Gupta became the head of the Scandinavian offices in 1981 and the head of the Chicago office in 1990. In 1994, he was elected managing director. Gupta is widely regarded as one of the first Indians to successfully break through the glass ceiling.
He assumed the role of office manager there in 1989, was elected managing director of the firm in 1994 and re-elected twice, once in 1997 and again in 2000.
Since joining the firm, Gupta has directed a number of projects aimed at helping companies develop new product/market strategies and reorganize for improved effectiveness and operations capabilities. He has a broad range of consulting experience with a variety of industries, including telecommunications, energy, and consumer goods.
Gupta is on the Advisory boards of Harvard Business School and the Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.[4] He is Chairman of the Board of the Indian School of Business at Hyderabad, India[5], and is also Chair of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He has many other professional and business affiliations, including: on the Board of Governors of the Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Chairman of the Board of Associates of the Harvard Business School; and Dean's Advisory Council, MIT Sloan School of Management.
In addition, Gupta serves on the board of American Airlines Inc. (Director and Member of Audit Committee), Genpact LTD. (Chairman and Member of Nominating and Governance Committee), Procter & Gamble Co. (Director), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Independent Director) and Sberbank (Independent Member of the Supervisory Council).[6] [7] Gupta is also the 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 emphasis on combatting HIV/AIDS in India.
Gupta was also recently appointed as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special advisor on management reform.[8] He was appointed as an independent director at Goldman Sachs on 10 November, 2006.
He is also on the board of trustees of the University of Chicago, advised McKinsey's work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on AIDS, as well as their Global Health Initiative, and is currently a trustee on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation.
[edit] Personal life
Rajat Gupta married Anita Mattoo of Srinagar, Kashmir, his 2 years junior at IIT.[9] She is an electrical engineer, according to him "a much smarter student" than he. The couple met at college debates and plays.
He presently lives in Westport, Connecticut with his wife and four daughters - Geetanjali, Megha, Aditi and Deepali.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/15/stories/2006111500792003.htm
- ^ http://www.hindu.com/2004/08/15/stories/2004081509510400.htm
- ^ http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1994/b336635.arc.htm
- ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/432787.cms
- ^ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/msid-3718537,flstry-1.cms
- ^ http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=162849&privcapId=7690731&previousCapId=168569&previousTitle=AMR%20Corporation
- ^ http://www.sbrf.ru/ru/about/managers/supervisory_board/
- ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1283712.cms
- ^ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2489323,prtpage-1.cms
[edit] External links
- Business Today cover story from 1994 about Rajat Gupta's rise at McKinsey
- Remarks by Bill Gates at the India Institute of Technology 50th Anniversary Celebration Cupertino, California, January 17, 2003 - Moderated by Rajat Gupta.
- Strength of a Nation Article in Mint
- Rockefeller Foundation: Gupta appointed as a Trustee
- University of Chicago Chronicle: Gupta appointed to the Board of Trustees
- The Global Fund: To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A brief biography
- McKinsey: Brief biography
- Coverage of his activities (SAJAforum.org)
- Coverage of World Malaria Day and a video (SAJAforum.org)
