PhDs Inside - Management Consulting with McKinsey

Have you thought about using the skills from your PhD outside of academia in a consulting role? Your advanced degree means that you likely already have many of the skills you need to succeed at McKinsey and in Management Consulting in general, such and problem-solving and intellectual curiosity.

In this session, you will learn which kind of opportunities McKinsey & Company can offer PhD graduates and the types of work we do. You will gain insight on life in McKinsey and how a ‘post-PhD’ career with us could look like from consultants on the journey themselves.

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Programme

14.00-14.30: Introduction to the team and McKinsey as an employment opportunity for PhDs

14.30-14.50: Examples of McKinsey's work – Sustainability case(s)

14.50-15.15: Questions round 1 (plenum) + short coffee break

15.15-15.40: McKinsey journey examples

15.40-16.00: Questions round 2 (breakouts/new zoom calls)  

Speakers

Emanuele Giraudo, PhD in Engineering management and Entrepreneurship at Politecnico di Milano
Research areas: Innovative Startup Investment; Human Capital and Innovative Entrepreneurship; Policy Interventions
Fun fact: I consider myself an excellent Salsa dancer (while I am absolutely terrible)

Tone Bengtsen, PhD in biochemistry
Research areas: Protein chemistry, biophysics and machine learning. Did supercomputer simulations of proteins and developed ML algorithms for them
Fun fact: Love, love, love Tour de France. I buy a half year subscription to TV2 every year in July to just watch 3 weeks of TdF

Ricky Teiwes, PhD in Physics, Aarhus University
Research areas: Photo-physics of molecular ions, ion-molecule interactions, atmospheric ions
Fun fact: I am German. Germans don’t have ‘fun’ facts, only facts

Kristina Wedege, PhD in Chemical & Biological Engineering, Aarhus University 
Research areas: Flow batteries coupled with photoelectrodes, polymers, electrochemistry
Fun fact: Have read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books +10 times  

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Please note that this event does not provide access to credit transfer of ECTS points.   

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