Hans-Paul Bürkner

Bürkner during the WEF 2012

Hans-Paul Bürkner (* 1952 in Varel ) is a German management consultant. Until 2013 he was Chief Executive Officer of the Boston Consulting Group .

Hans-Paul Bürkner studied from 1971 at the Ruhr-University Bochum and intervening in the academic year 1973/74 at the Yale University (Degree MA in Economics) Economics (Economics and Business Administration) and graduated in 1976 with the degree of Master of Economics from. He then received his PhD from Oxford University with the help of a Rhodes scholarship . His thesis dealt with saving behavior in the Philippines and Thailand. After a brief stint in corporate finance and international syndication at Commerzbank AG , he joined the Boston Consulting Group in 1981, where he became a partner in 1987. In this position he built up the Frankfurt office, which he headed from 1991 to 1997, and the German banking practice group. Since 1998 he has been on the German executive committee.

The 355 worldwide partners of the Boston Consulting Group elected him the fifth CEO of BCG in 2003, making him the first non-American in this position. He succeeded Carl W. Stern . In 2006 and 2009 he was re-elected for three years each. Since January 2013 he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of BCG. Richard Lesser is his successor.

Bürkner has been chairman of the German section of the Rhodes alumni association since 2013.

Web links

Interview at the RUB (accessed March 2013)

Individual evidence

↑ Change of boss at Boston Consulting: Richard Lesser takes over from Hans-Paul Bürkner. In: n-tv . January 9, 2013, accessed February 5, 2014 .
↑ Alexander Schäfer: Rhodes Scholarship: Free to Oxford. In: FAZ.NET . February 17, 2013, accessed February 5, 2014 .
^ The Association of German Rhodes Scholars. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 21, 2014 ; accessed on February 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Bürkner, Hans-Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German management consultant
DATE OF BIRTH	1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Varel

[1] Change of boss at Boston Consulting: Richard Lesser takes over from Hans-Paul Bürkner. In: n-tv . January 9, 2013, accessed February 5, 2014 .

[2] Alexander Schäfer: Rhodes Scholarship: Free to Oxford. In: FAZ.NET . February 17, 2013, accessed February 5, 2014 .

[3] The Association of German Rhodes Scholars. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 21, 2014 ; accessed on February 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2