Charag Krishnan

Charag is a Partner with McKinsey & Company’s Education Practice. He supports educational institutions on improving student outcomes, developing sustainable business models, strategy, operational turnarounds, capability building, advanced analytics applications, M&A transactions as well as international expansion. His work spans the spectrum of education – higher education institutions, impact investors, non-profits, governments, and philanthropic foundations – across India, Europe, Middle East and Australia.He is a founding cohort Teach for India fellow where he taught grades 2 and 3 at a low-income municipal school, and was involved with setting and scaling up India operations of a youth-employment non-profit founded by McKinsey Social Initiative. Charag has been a UNICEF Innovation Unit Fellow and currently serves on the Board of Mantra4Change US and Advisory Council of Teach for India U.S. He graduated with an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management as a Youn, Tata and NSF scholar and a Dean’s Award recipient. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics from National Institute of Technology, India and writes and speaks extensively on the topics of education.