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Kapil Chandra

Senior PartnerLondon

Leads McKinsey’s UK financial services work, providing clients in the banking, insurance, payments, wealth, and asset management sectors with deep expertise in large-scale financial and strategic transformations

As a senior partner in McKinsey’s London office, Kapil advises leading institutions on ambitious financial and strategic transformations, helping them drive lasting performance improvement. Additionally, Kapil co-convenes McKinsey’s global corporate strategy and finance work for financial institutions.

Kapil has advised financial institutions on a wide range of topics, including strategy, operating model redesign, and financial planning. His recent projects include:

  • advising on a multiyear transformation for a leading banking institution that significantly elevated the performance curve across all outcomes, including customer outcomes, productivity, operational efficiency, and scalability
  • advising leading global banking institutions across the full spectrum of strategic priorities—from corporate strategy and major performance transformations to operating model redesign and capital markets communications
  • supporting a multi-line insurer with a significant transformation spanning all of their retail and commercial lines
  • advising clients across the UK property and casualty insurance landscape, from leading specialty insurers to major retail insurers
  • advising on a strategic and financial restructuring and a five-year plan for one of the largest financial institutions in the world
  • developing a long-term capital allocation and strategic plan for a large global company embarking on M&A
  • leading a cost-benchmarking effort at a major UK life insurer

Before joining McKinsey, Kapil received his MBA from Harvard Business School, from which he graduated with high distinction as a Baker Scholar. He has a degree in PPE from the University of Oxford, where he was a Chevening Scholar, and a degree in economics from the University of Delhi, where he was awarded the President of India gold medal.

Kapil has served on the Leadership Council of TheCityUK, the industry-led body representing UK-based financial and related professional services.

Published work

Planning for uncertainty: Performance management under COVID-19,” McKinsey & Company, May 2020

Memo to the CFO: Get in front of digital finance—or get left back,” McKinsey & Company, July 2018

Unearthing performance gains to boost bank value,” McKinsey & Company, May 2015

Education

Harvard University
MBA (Baker Scholar)

University of Oxford
MA, philosophy, politics, and economics (Chevening Scholar)

University of Delhi
BA, economics