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Shivika Sahdev

PartnerNew York

Shivika Sahdev

PartnerNew York

Leader in the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility serving clients on navigating disruptions relating to electric-mobility. She co-leads McKinsey’s work on EV Charging Infrastructure and sustainability in advanced industries

Shivika is a leader of the firm’s work on disruptive mobility and serves automotive and aerospace OEMs, new entrants, suppliers, private-equity investors, and governments. She focuses on helping clients build strategies around where and how to engage in e-mobility and across the electric vehicle-charging ecosystem. Additionally, she has supported multiple clients on building decarbonization and emission-reduction strategies relating to transportation.

Before joining McKinsey, Shivika was a project leader at a strategy- and policy-advisory group where she worked with foundations, agencies, governments, and not-for-profit entities on energy and environmental issues.

Examples of her recent work include the following:

  • serving an e-mobility industrial in developing a strategy on where and how to engage in the electric-vehicle-charging value chain across different business-model options
  • serving a private equity group on assessing investments in a hardware provider and a pure-play electric-vehicle-charging software provider
  • helping an aerospace company to establish market sizing to inform investments in disruptive air mobility, specifically passenger and cargo electric vertical takeoff and landing
  • advising a large electric-vehicle-charging network in the United States on establishing its network including siting, installation planning, and go-to-market strategy
  • serving a global fuel-retail supplier on quantifying the impact of electrification, electric-vehicle charging, and autonomous vehicles on market size, trajectory, economics, and identifying opportunities for growth
  • supporting a major US utility in detailing a deployment strategy for a network of more than 5,000 level-two charging points, including design and construction, procurement support, and maintenance strate

Past experience

Dalberg Global Development Advisors
Project leader

Education

Columbia University
MPA, environmental science and policy

University of Pennsylvania
BA, mathematics and economics