Education
Ruhr University Bochum. Yale University.
Ruhr University Bochum. Yale University.
He is currently Chairman at Boston Consulting Group. He is the first European to be president and Chief Executive Officer of the company. He began his career in corporate finance at Commerzbank and joined Boston Consulting Group, then predominantly a United States consulting firm, in 1981. He credited much of his inspiration and business approach to Tom Lewis, a principal at the firm at the time.
Before becoming the firm’s first Chief Executive Officer from Europe, he was head of Boston Consulting Group’s global Financial Services practice and was a Senior Vice President in the firm.
Since his election by Boston Consulting Group’s partners to the office of Chief Executive Officer, under his leadership, Boston Consulting Group has grown from 2,600 consultants to 6,200 presently. He was re-elected to the office in 2009, taking his tenure to December 2012.
He has since opened seven new offices around the world and grown the size of the firm’s partner group by more than 60%. Bürkner has studied numerous subjects, including economics, business administration, and Chinese, at various universities.
He has received a diploma from the University of Bochum, an Master of Arts from Yale University, and a Doctorate.Phil. from Saint Catherine"s College, University of Oxford between 1978 and 1981, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Today he is based in both Frankfurt and New York, and travels extensively among Boston Consulting Group’s 78 offices around the world. Bürkner was recognized as one of the Top 25 Consultants making an impact on clients and within his own firm by Consulting Magazine in 2003.
He was a member of the team that opened Boston Consulting Group’s Düsseldorf (1982) and Frankfurt (1991) offices.
