Mehrdad Baghai

Mehrdad Baghai 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 coauthor of the international bestsellers The Alchemy of Growth and The Granularity of Growth. Previously, he was a partner in the Sydney and Toronto offices of McKinsey and Company and coleader of the firm’s worldwide Growth Practice.  He is also the founder of the High Resolves Initiative, a community service project around global citizenship, which has reached more than 10,000 high-school students. Mehrdad is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Mehrdad received a BSE with highest honors 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 MPP as a Kennedy Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and a JD with high honors at Harvard Law School.