Nitasha Walia is a Partner at McKinsey and Company, based out of Dubai. She has extensive expertise serving clients in real estate and retail.
She focusses predominantly on developing concept strategies and ensuring operational readiness of large megaprojects, serving sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors. Her work in retail focusses on growth strategies, in light of the changing consumer dynamics, shifts caused due to digitization and entry of international digital first competition. She has served retail clients across fashion, grocery, leisure and entertainment and F&B.
More recently, her work has focussed on the potential and implications of artificial intelligence for SWFs. She is especially knowledgeable on adoption of AI for commercial decision making.
She has experienced first-hand the transformational power of AI for traditional organisations and hugely believes in its value and the urgency with which organisations in the region need to modernise in response to changing technology landscape, consumer demands and global competition.