In conversation: Dr Akhil Prasad, Director, Country Counsel – India and Company Secretary, Boeing India

In conversation: Dr Akhil Prasad, Director, Country  Counsel – India  and Company Secretary,  Boeing India

In conversation

With a 25-year in-house career at iconic global corporates like Xerox, Electrolux, General Motors, Disney and Fidelity, plus two PhDs under his belt, Prasad shares a sprinkling of his accumulated wisdom.

GC: Can you tell me a little bit about your background and what it was that prompted you to work in the law?

Akhil Prasad (AP): I’m a first-generation lawyer. My father was a medical practitioner and my mother was a professor, so neither of them were in the legal field. I faced a lot of failures in my early life. I wanted to do medicine, I applied to many colleges, but I could not get through. Then I switched my CV from science to commerce; I did very well in my Commerce Bachelor’s degree, but then I failed miserably – I could not get admission into MBA colleges. I could clear all written exams, but I could not clear the interviews.

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