Bob Sternfels
{{Short description|American businessman}}
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Robert Sternfels is an American businessman who is the global managing partner of McKinsey & Company since July 2021.{{Cite web|title=Bob Sternfels Elected Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company |publisher=McKinsey & Company|url=https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/media/press-release-bob-sternfels|access-date=2021-03-10 |language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2021-06-30|title=Four McKinsey & Company partners relocate to Paris office|url=https://www.consultancy.eu/news/6423/four-mckinsey-company-partners-relocate-to-paris-office|access-date=2021-06-30|website=www.consultancy.eu|language=en}}
Early life and education
After growing up in Lodi, California in San Joaquin County,{{Cite news |last=Fuhrmans |first=Vanessa |date=2021-03-10 |title=McKinsey Names Bob Sternfels as Firm's New Global Managing Partner |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/mckinsey-names-bob-sternfels-as-firms-new-global-managing-partner-11615383076 |access-date=2023-12-15 |issn=0099-9660}} Sternfels studied history and economics at Stanford University, where he was a member of the NCAA Division I varsity water polo team.{{Cite web|title=Rhodes Scholars Include Rower, Dancer and Computer Wiz With AM-Rhodes List|url=https://apnews.com/article/821dbb6d5fe82e4769828cf5debab68d|access-date=2021-03-13|website=AP NEWS}}{{Cite web|date=1991-09-12|title=Three Stanford students named Rhodes scholars for 1992|url=https://news.stanford.edu/pr/91/911209Arc1022.html|access-date=2021-03-13|website=news.stanford.edu}} He went on to further study at Worcester College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. While originally intending to read international law, he ended up studying towards a Masters degree in philosophy, politics and economics.{{Cite web|title=Rhodes Scholar Database - Rhodes Trust|url=https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Edgecliffe-Johnson|first=Andrew|title=McKinsey elects Bob Sternfels as next leader of crisis-hit partnership|url=https://www.ft.com/content/c0619e19-2696-4ed4-9538-7ce5c2b9357f|access-date=2021-03-10|newspaper=Financial Times|date=10 March 2021 }}
Career
Sternfels joined McKinsey upon graduating from Oxford University in 1994. At the time of his election to managing partner in 2021, he led the firm's advanced analytics practice and was based in the firm's San Francisco office.{{Cite web|title=Bob Sternfels |publisher=McKinsey & Company|url=https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/bob-sternfels|access-date=2021-03-10 |language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2021-03-10|title=Strategieberatung {{!}} US-Amerikaner Bob Sternfels wird neuer Chef von McKinsey|url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/dienstleister/strategieberatung-us-amerikaner-bob-sternfels-wird-neuer-chef-von-mckinsey/26989750.html|website=Handelsblatt}} He had previously led McKinsey's operations practice in the US and its private equity practice globally.{{Cite news|last=Fuhrmans|first=Vanessa|date=2021-03-10|title=McKinsey Names Bob Sternfels as Firm's New Global Managing Partner|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/mckinsey-names-bob-sternfels-as-firms-new-global-managing-partner-11615383076|access-date=2021-03-10|issn=0099-9660}}
He is a board member of QuestBridge, sits on the advisory board of USA Water Polo and is a trustee of the Rhodes Trust.{{Cite web|title=Our Board of Directors|url=https://www.questbridge.org/about/board-of-directors|access-date=2021-03-11|website=QuestBridge}}{{Cite web|date=2009-02-06|title=Ellen Estes Lee, Bob Sternfels to Join USA Water Polo Board of Directors|url=https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/ellen-estes-lee-bob-sternfels-to-join-usa-water-polo-board-of-directors/|access-date=2021-03-26|website=Swimming World News|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Trustees, Governance & Financial Statements - Rhodes Trust|url=https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|language=en}} He has also served as the treasurer of The American Oxonian.{{Cite journal|date=Fall 2012|title=Officers|url=https://www.americanrhodes.org/assets/attachments/635.pdf|journal=The American Oxonian|volume=XCIX|issue=4}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/bob-sternfels Bob Sternfels] on the website of McKinsey & Company
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