Sunil Sanghvi is a recently retired senior partner in McKinsey’s Chicago office who now serves as a senior advisor. He founded and led the firm’s agriculture practice for many years and now serves as chairman of McKinsey’s Center for Agriculture Transformation and Food Security. His work has focused on helping private-sector clients improve their strategies and operational performance and helping public- and social-sector clients on issues such as country agriculture transformation, food price volatility, the environmental sustainability of agriculture, and agriculture’s contribution to economic development.  ​

Sanghvi has a wide range of professional experience including leading a foundation, and developing its strategies and grant making approach around small holder agriculture. He has also worked for three different African countries’ governments and their development partners to drive agricultural transformation. Sanghvi worked with country offices for a leading bilateral donor to develop more strategic agricultural development programs.

During his various experiences working with agricultural companies, Sanghvi has worked on multi-year programs for performance improvement, global strategy, and growth.

Sanghvi has been at McKinsey for more than 30 years. During 1991-92, Sanghvi took a year off from McKinsey and worked at the World Bank on agriculture in China.  Prior to joining McKinsey, he was a process engineer for Chevron Corporation. Sanghvi obtained his MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and his bachelor and master of science degrees in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He is, or has been, a board member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, lead advisor for the World Economic Forum’s “New Vision for Agriculture”, a member of the Advisory Committee for USAID, and a member of the New York Council on Foreign Affairs.