She had until then led her career in the London office, having completed a first stint within the firm from 2010 to 2013 as a junior consultant before continuing her career there (after an MBA obtained in 2015) and being promoted to partner 5 years later.
She succeeds in these responsibilities to Maxime Julian, elected head of the Paris office at the end of 2021, a pure LEK “product”, just like Anne Dhulesia.
Paris is the largest non-English speaking office of the consulting firm founded in London in 1983, with around a hundred employees.
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LEK: the priorities of the new boss in Paris
November 17. This is the date on which Maxime Julian, a 35-year-old ESCP, a pure in-house product where he quickly climbed through all the ranks, became the new boss of LEK's Paris office. He shares his priorities with Consultant.
Return to a course marked LEK
She is a multi-graduate who takes the reins of the Paris office: a normalienne with a degree in chemistry from Normale Sup' in 2006 (Ulm), and a doctorate in biophysical chemistry from the University of Cambridge (2010), supplemented by an MBA from the London Business School in 2015. The former student of the Lycée Louis-le-Grand also came first in the 2000 general competition in the Latin theme.
Having joined LEK for a first season between 2010 and 2013 (as a junior consultant), she then discovered the Life Sciences practice which would become her preferred field. In 2014, Anne Dhulesia completed two internships – at GHO Capital Partners LLP, a fund specializing in the healthcare sector, and within the British pharmaceutical industry giant, GSK (on the commercial dimension) – as part of the course of his MBA.
In 2015, once she had obtained the latter, she joined the London office of the firm where she had started, this time at the rank of consultant. She begins an evolution fast trackbecoming manager in 2016, principal in 2019 and partner from 2020. At LEK, the time in grade average consultant to partner is 7.5 years.
Anne Dhulesia has since focused on Life Sciences – identifying business development opportunities, developing business plans, assessing market potential and defining long-term strategies. The associate also provides transactional support to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and private equity companies seeking to acquire or divest assets.
The taking up of the role of Anne Dhulésia, whose official announcement will take place at the beginning of January, makes it possible to feminize a partnership which has become 100% male since the retirement of the emblematic Clare Chatfield last April.
In the history of LEK's Paris office, this is the second time that a woman has become boss: the same Clare Chatfield had in fact managed it from 1995 to 2017. She was then the first to head an office in France in the world of strategy consulting before others followed the same path – much later – including Ada Di Marzo at Bain from 2019 and, from 2021, Delphine Bourilly at Kearney and Clarisse Magnin-Mallez for McKinsey.
