Hans-Paul Bürkner

Hans-Paul Bürkner (born 1952) is a German management consultant, and a managing director, senior partner, and global chair emeritus of the Boston Consulting Group. Bürkner was President & CEO from 2004 to 2012, and was the firm's first European CEO.

Career Bürkner began his career in corporate finance at Commerzbank, and joined BCG in 1981 while it was a predominantly U.S.-focused consulting firm. He was a member of the teams which opened BCG's Düsseldorf and Frankfurt offices, in 1982 and 1991 respectively. He credited much of his inspiration and business approach to Tom Lewis, a principal at the firm at the time.

Bürkner has studied economics, business administration, and Chinese. He has received a diploma from the University of Bochum, an M.A. from Yale University, and a D.Phil. from St Catherine's College, Oxford between 1976 and 1980, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Today, Bürkner travels extensively in the 46 countries in which BCG operates in order to support key clients and teams.