Robert Sternfels is an American businessman who has been the managing partner of

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 ...

since July 2021.

Early life and education

After growing up in

Lodi, California Lodi ( ) is a city located in San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County, California, in the center portion of California's Central Valley (California), Central Valley. The population was 62,134 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 cen ...

, Sternfels studied history and economics at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, where he was a member of the

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varsity water polo team. He went on to further study at

Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms w ...

as a

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. While originally intending to read international law, he ended up studying towards an undergraduate degree in philosophy, politics and economics.

Career

Sternfels joined McKinsey upon graduating from

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in 1994. At the time of his election to managing partner in 2021, he led the firm's advanced analytics practice and was based in the firm's

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office. He had previously led McKinsey's operations practice in the US and its private equity practice globally. He is a board member of

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, sits on the advisory board of

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and is a trustee of the

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. He has also served as the treasurer of ''

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''.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Lodi, California Stanford University alumni Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford McKinsey & Company people

External links

Bob Sternfels
on the website of McKinsey & Company {{US-business-bio-stub American Rhodes Scholars