Adil Zainulbhai is the chairman of

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, the mass media subsidiary of the conglomerate

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. He is also the chairman of

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(QCI) since 2014, 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. Zainulbhai sits on the boards of Reliance Industries,

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and

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as independent director, and is a member of the

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–based US-India Strategic Partnership Forum.

Early life and career

Zainulbhai graduated from

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with a degree in

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, and attended the

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for a post-graduate degree in management. He has been granted a position in the advisory board for the

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and is the president of Harvard Business School alumni association in India. Zainulbhai joined

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in 1979 in the United States where he headed the company's Washington office and initiated its

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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

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, the first foreign born head of the company. Zainulbhai resigned from McKinsey in 2012.

References

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