By IANS
New York : Rajat K. Gupta, senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Co., has been elected to the board of the American Airlines, the leading US airline company, and its parent AMR Corporation.
India born Gupta brings vast business and community experience to AMR, the Texas based aviation company said in a press release Wednesday.
An Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) graduate with an MBA from Harvard University, Gupta served as the managing director worldwide of McKinsey, a consulting firm, from 1994 to 2003.
Currently, Connecticut-based Gupta serves, among others, on the boards of Goldman Sachs, Procter & Gamble, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is also chairman of the advisory board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and co-chair of the American India Foundation.
Besides Gupta, AMR has also appointed to its board Alberto Ibarguen, former publisher of The Miami Herald, who is a member of the board of PepsiCo and of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Gupta and Ibarguen, the company said, “bring to our boards the necessary diverse points of view and personal qualities that will help strengthen both AMR and American Airlines now and in the years to come”.