Dominic Barton

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Mr. Dominic Barton serves as Non-Executive Chairman at Leapfrog Investments. He serves as Chairman of the Board and Nominations Committee, and Member of the Sustainability & Remuneration Committee at Rio Tinto. He also serves as a Partner at Radical Ventures. He served as Advisory Board Member at Altas Partners. He also served as Senior Advisor at Radical Ventures. He also served as Advisory Board Member at Terramera. Mr. Barton served as Managing Director at McKinsey & Company. He is a Senior Partner and Global Managing Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company. From July 2009 to July 2018 he served as Global Managing Partner, based in London. In his 32 years with the firm, he has advised clients in a range of industries including banking, consumer goods, high tech and industrials. Prior to serving as Global Managing Partner, he was based in Shanghai as McKinsey's Asia Chairman from 2004 to 2009 and led the Korea office from 2000 to 2004. He is the Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, the Chair of the Canadian Minister of Finance's Advisory Council on Economic Growth and the Chair of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council. He is also a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, a member of the Singapore Economic Development Board's International Advisory Council, and a member of the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is one of the founders of FCLT Global (Focusing Capital on the Long Term), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing practical tools and approaches that encourage long-term behaviors in business and investment decision-making. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA Honours in economics and has a M.Phil in Economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.