Adil Zainulbhai is the chairman of

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, the mass media subsidiary of the conglomerate

Reliance Industries Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate company, headquartered in Mumbai. It has diverse businesses including energy, petrochemicals, natural gas, retail, telecommunications, mass media, and textiles. Reliance is ...

. He is also the chairman of

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(QCI) since 2014, and has been appointed as the chairman of the Capacity Building Commission (CBC), a commission set up by the government for its "Mission Karmayogi" project. Zainulbhai sits on the boards of Reliance Industries,

Larsen & Toubro Larsen & Toubro Ltd, commonly known as L&T, is an Indian multinational conglomerate company, with business interests in engineering, construction, manufacturing, technology, information technology and financial services, headquartered in Mumba ...

and

Cipla Cipla Limited (stylized as Cipla) is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company, headquartered in Mumbai. Cipla primarily develops medicines to treat respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes, depression and many oth ...

as independent director, and is a member of the

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based US-India Strategic Partnership Forum. Zainulbhai graduated from

IIT Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay or IITB) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is considered as one of the best engineering universities in India and is top ranked ...

with a degree in

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, and attended the

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for a post-graduate degree in management. He has been granted a position in the advisory board for the

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and is the president of Harvard Business School alumni association in India. Zainulbhai joined

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

in 1979 in the United States where he headed the company's Washington office and initiated its

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office. In 2004, he returned to India after being appointed as the chairman of McKinsey India. In the company, he was closely associated with and was the

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, the first foreign born head of the company. Zainulbhai resigned from McKinsey in 2012.

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