Creating professional opportunities for TERI's development

Publication Date: 22 November 2011

Author(s): Rajendra K Pachauri

Abstract:

During the meeting that I had arranged with Directors and Area Convenors on October 28, 2011, I had emphasized the need for us to be proactive and visionary in developing opportunities that would be of value to the Institute in the future. I can only give you as examples two instances which involve the consulting firm McKinsey. It was some four years ago that Mr. Rajat Gupta of McKinsey and I were on the same flight from Geneva to Zurich. He immediately suggested that we have somebody sitting next to me change to his seat so that we could sit together. During the course of that short flight he asked me about what McKinsey should do in the field of climate change, and I of course gave him my thoughts and the importance of assessing mitigation opportunities. He then wanted to know what they could do in India. And sure enough McKinsey got involved with work in India, I am sure with substantial funding. But very soon his initial promise of working with TERI in India just evaporated into thin air. Hence, McKinsey basically went ahead without our partnership. 

Publisher/Organisation: TERI

Source: TERI Intranet