Dominic Barton

Dominic Barton was born in Kampala, Uganda in 1962.[3][4] Barton's father was an Anglican missionary who helped develop a theology college in Uganda;[5] his mother was a nurse.[6][7] In his childhood, his family's house was occupied by general and future dictator Idi Amin, who was rising to power in Uganda at the time.[6] At age seven, his family moved from Uganda to the community of Sardis, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. [7]

Barton attended the University of British Columbia,[8] where he earned a Bachelor's degree in economics.[9] He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University, where he received an MPhil degree in economics.[10]

After graduating, Barton worked briefly as a currency analyst for N M Rothschild & Sons in London. In 1986, he was hired by McKinsey & Company to work in the company's Toronto office,[8][11] and worked from that office as a management consultant for eleven years.[3] He was nominated to be a partner earlier than normal, but was not promoted to that level until his third attempt.[12][13]

Asian experience

In 1997, Barton moved to the McKinsey office in Seoul.[12] [14][15][16] He enjoyed close relationships with the president and government of South Korea.[17][18] He parlayed those relationships into a role running McKinsey in Korea from 2000 to 2004.

Barton with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, India

He served as chairman for McKinsey in Asia from 2004 to 2009, operating out of Shanghai.[19][20][21] He co-edited a book of interviews based on his experiences in Asia, China Vignettes – An Inside Look At China, [22][23]

He has been an adjunct professor at Beijing's Tsinghua University and member of the advisory board for the China Development Bank.[2]

In 2010, Barton was made an honorary fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He is also on the board of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School.

He is a trustee of the Rhodes Trust and the Brookings Institution, and Chairman of the International Advisory Committee to the President of South Korea on National Future and Vision. He is a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.[34] He is a member of the International Advisory Board at the University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government[35] and of the Board of Trustees of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.[36] He was director at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and chair of Canadian mining company Teck Resources.[2] He is also a Strategic Advisor to FCLTGlobal, an organization that encourages a more long-term approach in business and investing, which he co-founded along with the CEOs of BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow and Tata in 2016.

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology on the 24th of June 2016.[37]

Barton, whose principal home is in London, was married to a Canadian and has two children.[38] He divorced in 2014, later remarrying BlackRock's Asia Pacific chairman and CEO Geraldine Buckingham, an Australian and Rhodes scholar.[32]

• Barton, Dominic; Newell, Roberto; Wilson, Gregory (October 2, 2002). Dangerous Markets: Managing in Financial Crises. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-42973-9.
• Barton, Dominic (2007). China Vignettes. Talisman Publishers. ISBN 978-981-05-8091-9.
• Barton, Dominic; Rothschild, Lynn (May 15, 2012). "The case for inclusive capitalism". The Guardian.
• Barton, Dominic; Charan, Ram; Carey, Dennis, People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO, Harvard Business Review

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