Described as "Mr. Strategy" worldwide, Dr. Kenichi Ohmae is regularly sought out as a public speaker and management consultant. Ohmae, according to the Financial Times of London, is "Japan's only management guru." In 1994, The Economist selected him one of five management gurus in the world. As an author he has published over 100 books, many of which are devoted to business and socio-political analyses. He has also contributed numerous articles to major publications (e.g., Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, New York Times). The Mind of Strategist, Triad Power, Beyond National Borders, The Borderless World, The End of the Nation State, and The Evolving Global Economy (editor), The Invisible Continent &mdash Four Strategic Imperatives of the New Economy are just some of the books that he has authored.
For twenty-three years, Dr. Ohmae was a senior partner in McKinsey & Company, the international management consulting firm. As a co-founder of its strategic management practice, he served companies in a wide spectrum of industries, including industrial and consumer electronics, finance, telecommunications, food and chemicals.
Born in 1943 in Kitakyūshū, he earned a BS from Waseda University, an MS from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and subsequently worked as a senior design engineer for Hitachi. He then joined McKinsey & Company, becoming a senior partner, developing and running the company's Japan operations for a number of years. He quit McKinsey when he lost the fight for the chaimanship position of the Firm.
In 1995, he ran for Governor of Tokyo, but lost to Yukio Aoshima.
He now lives in Tokyo with his wife and two sons.