Rajat Kumar Gupta 
Vice-Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Rajat Kumar Gupta became the Vice-Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce on 1 July 2008. He is the Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and served as the Managing Director Worldwide of McKinsey from 1994 to 2003.

Mr Gupta is an independent Director of Goldman Sachs, Procter & Gamble, AMR Corporation, and Qatar Financial Centre. He also holds leadership positions in various not-for-profit institutions, including Chairman of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Chairman of the India AIDS Initiative of The Gates Foundation, and Chairman of the Public Health Foundation of India.

Mr Gupta joined McKinsey's New York office in 1973, assumed leadership of its Scandinavian offices in 1981, and Chicago office in 1989. In his 34 year career in consulting, he has served many leading companies on a broad set of topics related to strategy, organization and operations.

Mr Gupta possesses an in-depth knowledge of the United Nations, having served as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on UN Reform.

Mr Gupta holds a bachelor of technology degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.