Biography

Kai Lakhdar is the National Private Equity and Pension Fund Consulting Leader for PwC Canada, where he leads a team of investment management consulting partners and staff to serve their investor clients across Canada and globally. Strategy&, part of PwC’s global network, is a business consulting firm that focuses on aligning economic growth with social progress and environmental sustainability.

Over the past 20 years, Kai has advised a range of investor and corporate clients across Canada on a wide range of strategic and operational issues including fund transformation, growth strategy, technology modernization, advanced data analytics, operational effectiveness, policy reform and navigating the impacts of megatrends, technology, and regulation.

Kai brings deep experience in both strategy development and the application of analytical techniques in capital markets, alternatives, healthcare, technology, and retail and consumer goods. He formerly helped establish an international technology business focused on corporate customers. Before that, he led a corporate strategy practice at KPMG, assuming various Canadian and global roles.

Kai has significant international experience, having worked on more than 100 strategy and transformation engagements in more than 15 countries. Kai holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in engineering with a focus on management science from University College London as well as certificates in investment management and ESG investing from CFA UK.