Vikram Bhalla is the global leader of Boston Consulting Group’s leadership and talent topic and the head of the Leadership and Talent Enablement Center in Singapore. He also coleads the family business topic for BCG globally. He is a core member of the firm’s Industrial Goods practice.

A BCG Fellow since 2012, Vikram is conducting research on family businesses in emerging markets. Much of the previous research on family businesses has centered on the developed world. Vikram’s work focuses on unearthing the unique features, perspectives, and mind-sets of these businesses in emerging markets, where more than 50% of all companies are family-owned.

Vikram was previously the head of the People & Organization practice for the Asia-Pacific region and the leader of the global building-materials topic. Before joining the firm in 1996, Vikram was an intern with ITC, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco.