Euvin Naidoo

Who is Euvin Naidoo?

In 2011 Euvin Naidoo was selected by Forbes onto their Top 10 most Powerful and Influential Men under Forty in Africa list. He is currently a banking executive in Johannesburg, South Africa. A graduate of the Harvard Business School, Euvin Naidoo is also an alumnus of global international management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., having started his career at the Firm in the 1990s with a focus on growth strategies, turnarounds and engagements in Africa within financial services, telecommunications, metals & mining and airlines/transport.

In February 2009 Naidoo was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. At the 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa, the final plenary session chose to profile five 'Rising Stars of Africa', drawn from across the continent- Euvin Naidoo was chosen to be a part of this group, honoured with helping close the event highlighting the views of the next generation of leaders. In August 2012 Euvin was also recruited onto the Global Agenda Council USA, for the World Economic Forum. Per the description of the World Economic Forum, 'Global Agenda Councils...[are] a unique, global community of...premier thought leaders who are the foremost experts in their fields of academia, business, government, international organisations and society...The Global Agenda Councils are committed to addressing the most pressing issues and opportunities of our time and aim to provide new thinking and solutions' Described on Forbes.com as a 'leading advocate for Western investment' into Africa, he led a line-up of international innovators and thinkers as the opening speaker at the 2007 TED Global Conference where new ideas where explored and shared regarding the continent. In 2009 the Journal of International Affairs at Columbia University chose to profile 5 African leaders including Mo Ibrahim and John Atta Mills - Naidoo was chosen to be profiled alongside these leaders as one of the 'FIVE FACES OF AFRICAN INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP'.