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Ruchin Jain

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Helps oil and gas and chemicals companies tackle opportunities and challenges faced by the industry across growth, performance, and sustainability

Ruchin advises leaders in the oil and gas and chemicals sectors in the EEMA region. He works with both public- and private-sector entities, including national oil companies, sovereign wealth funds, helping them to grow organically and inorganically, improve financial performance, and meet sustainability goals.

Ruchin’s recent client projects include the following:

  • designing a large-scale transformation for the downstream portfolio of a national oil company and leading the transformation at several refining and chemicals sites that included: full-potential transformation at a complex and integrated downstream site and diagnostic and bottom-up planning phases of a transformation at large Middle Eastern refineries
  • supporting a national oil company in its chemicals-growth journey, including over ten organic and inorganic deals across the globe
  • designing the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy for a large petrochemicals company
  • supporting the downstream portfolio of a national oil company in their decarbonization journey
  • leading the materials-innovation program for a Middle Eastern country to identify new products and applications across sectors, including building and construction, packaging, and transportation
  • leading the development and execution of a more than $200 billion chemicals-growth strategy for a Middle Eastern country with a focus on downstream and specialty chemicals
  • supporting a number of M&A deals for localization of materials-value chains for sovereign-wealth funds and national oil companies

Prior to joining McKinsey, Ruchin also worked in corporate and investment banking.

Published work

Excellence in petrochemicals: What it will take to win,” McKinsey & Company, December 2022

The clean hydrogen opportunity for hydrocarbon-rich countries,” McKinsey & Company, November 2022

Education

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
MBA

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
B-Tech and M-Tech, chemical engineering