Mehrdad Baghai

Mehrdad is Chairman of Alchemy Growth, a boutique strategy advisory firm. Mehrdad advises large companies on their growth strategies and business building initiatives. He specialises in strategy in turbulent environments and the design of enterprise operating systems for growth.

He is a frequent lecturer and writer on management theory especially in the growth strategy domain. He is co-author of the New York Times bestseller As One as well as international bestsellers <i>The Alchemy of Growth and Granularity</i>. Previously, he was a partner in the Sydney and Toronto offices of McKinsey and Company and co-leader of the Firm’s worldwide Growth Practice.

Mehrdad also serves as a venture partner with a number of Silicon Valley technology ventures as well as a few promising technology ventures. He is co-founder of High Resolves, a social venture around global citizenship which has engaged over 165,000 young people in Australia, U.S., Canada and China. Mehrdad received a B.S.E. with highest honors from Princeton University, an M.P.P. as a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. with high honors at Harvard Law School.