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Mayank Singhal works as an analyst with McKinsey & Company in India. His current role requires him to collaborate with consulting teams from the Delhi and Mumbai offices in order to address their research requirements and to provide valuable research inputs. In addition, Mayank helps out other Firm colleagues worldwide with India-centric research. He is also affiliated to McKinsey's global Travel and Logistics research group, and has worked actively in the Travel & Logistics and Aerospace domains. In his tenure at the Firm spanning a little more than two years, Mayank has already authored two internal knowledge documents (called Practice Documents) on aerospace-related subjects. His exceptional knowledge building efforts and his contibution to the Firm's internal knowldege development won him McKinsey India Centre's excellence award in August 2006.

Having started his professional career right after graduate school, Mayank was McKinsey's first hire from Delhi University's Sri Venkateswara College, where he completed his Bachelors degree in economics, graduating at the top of his class. While at college, he also won the Bharatula Savitri Memorial and the Soundarya Govindswamy Memorial awards for outstanding academic performance. Mayank spent most of his high-school years at Delhi Public School, Noida, one of India's most respected schools. While in high school, he was on a nine-member team selected from all over the country for an international youth exchange program to Sri Lanka organised by Rotary International.

Mayank holds a strong belief in the idea of economic libertarianism, and is actively involved with the Centre for Civil Society, a New Delhi-based libertarian economic think tank that undertakes research on public policy issues. Fascinated by the theme of "Law, Liberty and Livelihood," the focus of his work for CCS has been on deregulation of entry-level professions in India's informal sector. On one engagament with CCS in 2003, Mayank produced some high-impact research on the porter community in New Delhi, which eventually got published in Businessworld, one of India's leading business publications. Though he decided against a career in journalism for reasons well-thought, Mayank is still passioante about writing. At 23, he has already authored articles for many national magazines and newspapers including Businessworld, The Economic Times, The Statesman, and Today.

Mayank also serves on the Board of Advisors of Sri Venkateswara College's Economics Alumni Association.