Hemant is a senior partner in McKinsey’s Zurich office and global coleader of McKinsey Sustainability, helping leading organizations decarbonize, transform their core businesses, scale new climate technologies, and amplify climate investment. He also cochairs the firm's mission-driven McKinsey Health Institute, which convenes, collaborates, and advances research with stakeholders across seven historically underinvested areas of health: brain health, healthy longevity, equity and health, health worker capacity, sustainability and health, healthy workforces, and infectious diseases.
Drawing on his training as a medical doctor, Hemant has served multiple organizations in innovating and delivering healthcare solutions to patients, across pharmaceuticals, biotech, consumer health, and health systems. A former global leader for McKinsey’s commercial Life Sciences Practice, Hemant’s work has focused on topics including strategy, digital transformations, innovation, and commercial excellence.
Hemant also previously led McKinsey’s Public and Social Sector Practices in Europe and has extensive experience advising clients on public health, education, and sustainable economic development. His work on public health focuses on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), pandemic prevention and response, polio eradication, and helping multilateral organizations with their strategy and operations.
Hemant’s career began in India where he studied medicine. After earning an MBA, he joined McKinsey in Delhi and moved to Europe in 2005. Hemant has also served as a leader for McKinsey’s Transformation Practice in Europe. He is a leading expert on healthy aging and longevity, publishing frequently on the topic. Hemant is also a member of the World Economic Forum global future council on AMR and represents McKinsey as a founding partner of the Trinity Challenge, which is a charitable coalition of partners who seek to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic response to help better prepare against any future health emergencies around the globe.