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Chairman of Network18 Group, Capacity Building Commission, and Quality Council of India
Adil Zainulbhai
is the chairman of
Network18 Group
,
[1]
the mass media subsidiary of the conglomerate
Reliance Industries
.
[2]
He is also the chairman of
Quality Council of India
(QCI) since 2014,
[3]
[4]
and has been appointed as the chairman of the Capacity Building Commission (CBC), a commission set up by the government for its "Mission Karmayogi" project.
[5]
[4]
Zainulbhai sits on the boards of Reliance Industries,
Larsen & Toubro
and
Cipla
as independent director,
[3]
and is a member of the
Washington, D.C
based US-India Strategic Partnership Forum.
[6]
Zainulbhai graduated from
IIT Bombay
with a degree in
mechanical engineering
, and attended the
Harvard Business School
for a post-graduate degree in management. He has been granted a position in the advisory board for the
Indian Institutes of Technology
and is the president of Harvard Business School alumni association in India. Zainulbhai joined
McKinsey & Company
in 1979 in the United States where he headed the company's Washington office and initiated its
Minneapolis
office. In 2004, he returned to India after being appointed as the chairman of McKinsey India. In the company, he was closely associated with and was the
protege
of
Rajat Gupta
, the first foreign born head of the company. Zainulbhai resigned from McKinsey in 2012.
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