Seelan Singham

Biography

Seelan is a leader in the Public Sector Practice. He advises government leaders in developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East on public-sector transformation. Among his areas of focus are transformation within state-owned enterprises, public-service delivery, economic development, government holding corporations, and sovereign-wealth funds. He has also worked extensively with clients in the financial-services sector. Seelan joined McKinsey in 1993 and worked in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States before moving to Kuala Lumpur, where he has been based since 2003. Examples of his recent work include: helping an Asian government work with the private sector to create a 5- to 10-year economic development programme for the nation advising a government agency in Asia as it designed a programme to improve living standards and reduce the cost of living for the urban poor working with a middle-income nation to develop a programme that would deliver on the government’s top social priorities: education, rural basic infrastructure, urban public transport, poverty, corruption, and crime helping a national oil company develop its top leaders and intensify performance management to achieve its global aspirations working with four major retail banks in the United States and the Asia–Pacific region to design and launch holistic performance-transformation efforts Prior to joining McKinsey, Seelan worked with the Royal Bank of Canada and the ANZ Bank in Australia. He holds a BA with high distinction from the University of Toronto and an MBA with distinction from the University of Melbourne. During his postgraduate work, Seelan was awarded a Rupert Murdoch Fellowship.

Research Interest

Uses his expertise in government and transformations to drive large-scale transformation programs in developing nations EXPERTISE Public Sector Transformational Change Private Equity & Principal Investors Social Sector Economic Development