Mehrdad Baghai

Mehrdad is the Chairman of Alchemy Growth, a boutique strategy advisory firm advising large companies on their growth strategies. He specializes in disruptive strategy and designing organization architectures for rapid growth. He is an active investor in both the technology and private equity space collaborating with other institutions like the Macquarie Group. He is Co-Director of Future Secure AI, an enterprise advisory firm specializing in the adoption of AI at scale.
Mehrdad is a frequent lecturer on management theory especially in the growth strategy domain. He is co-author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller As One as well as international bestsellers The Alchemy of Growth and Granularity. He was a partner at McKinsey & Company where he co-led the worldwide Growth Practice.
Mehrdad served a three-year term as an Executive Director of CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, with overarching responsibility for growth, investment and commercialization, where he spun out dozens of new technology companies.
Mehrdad received a B.S.E. with highest honors from Princeton, 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. Mehrdad is a Crown Fellow and winner of the John P. McNulty Prize at the Aspen Institute.
Mehrdad is also the Group CEO of the High Resolves Group, a social venture, which he co-founded with his wife Roya, that has engaged over 6 million young people across the world.