About Shirish
Shirish Sankhe is a director in McKinsey’s Mumbai office and supports clients in both our Infrastructure and Public Sector practices. He works closely with major energy and infrastructure companies in India and across the world. Shirish specializes in transformation and turnarounds of industrial companies; over the past decade he has helped over ten such companies achieve significant, sustained performance improvement.
He is also an expert in the global metals and mining industries, and works closely with several metals and mining companies around the world.
Shirish spends a significant portion of his time on public policy work in India, working with the government to improve primary education and manage the process of urbanisation. In 2010, Shirish coauthored the landmark McKinsey Global Institute report on India’s urbanization, a topic he is passionate about.
He has also coauthored several reports on policies to achieve rapid economic growth for India.
Published work
“How to fix our cities” Forbes, August 2012
“India’s urbanization: A closer look,” McKinsey Quarterly, July 2010
“Comparing urbanization in India and China,” Financial Times, May 2010
“India’s urban awakening: Building inclusive cities, sustaining economic growth,” McKinsey Global Institute, April 2010
“Urgent need for reforms,” Business Standard, April 2010
“Environmental and energy sustainability: An approach for India” (PDF–2.45 MB), McKinsey, September 2009
Education
| Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania |
Wharton Executive Management Program |
| Purdue University |
PhD in chemical engineering |
| University of Bombay (UDCT) |
BS in chemical engineering |