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Kunal Luthra

PartnerMelbourne

Leads McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice in Australia and specializes in strategy, innovation, and commercial due diligence across sectors

Kunal advises clients on strategy, innovation and commercial due diligence, helping to identify and evaluate investment, transformation and growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving technological environment. He carries a specific interest in the responsible adoption of technology, including management of change and risk.

He also leads McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice in Australia, and serves organizations across the healthcare ecosystem. As a former medical doctor, Kunal is driven by a passion for improving outcomes for patients and enabling novel solutions to systemic challenges. 

Examples of his recent work include:

  • leading commercial due diligences across multiple sectors including consumer, energy, healthcare, logistics and technology. In healthcare, this includes exposure to sub-sectors such as primary care clinics, specialty care clinics, inpatient hospital providers, day hospital providers, diagnostics technology players and HealthTech companies
  • assisting financial services institutions in strategy and developing new technology-enabled platforms for their customers
  • supporting organizations across sectors in strategy refreshes, particularly in the context of changing external market forces
  • helping innovator healthcare and HealthTech companies on several topics, including long-term strategy and equity story development
  • evaluating strategic merger and acquisition opportunities for healthcare organizations, including consideration of physical footprint and integration synergies
  • helping several public health initiatives, including COVID-19 pandemic response and digital transformations.

Kunal has a medical degree from Monash University and worked in the Victorian public hospital system prior to joining McKinsey. When not working, he enjoys reading, sports, and dabbling in new technology.

Education

University of Sydney
MA, health policy

Monash University
MBBS (Hons)

Monash University
BmedSc (Hons), neurology