Mehrdad Baghai

Mehrdad is Managing Director of Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique advisory and venture firm based in Sydney. Mehrdad advises large companies on their growth strategies and business building initiatives. He is co-author of the international bestsellers, The Alchemy of Growth, The Granularity of Growth as well as the newly released book As One. 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.

He is the founder of the High Resolves Initiative, a community service project around global citizenship, which has reached over 10,000 high school students. Mehrdad is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Mehrdad received a B.S.E. with highest honours in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University, where he also completed a joint degree on public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School. He continued his education in public policy at Harvard where he completed an M.P.P. as a Kennedy Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. with high honours at Harvard Law School.