Ranjit de Sousa
President
Lee Hecht Harrison
As President of Lee Hecht Harrison, Ranjit de Sousa leads Lee Hecht Harrison's global team including strategy, sales, service innovation and client service. Ranjit is responsible for driving Lee Hecht Harrison's aggressive growth and diversification plans.
Ranjit, based in Zurich, has worked as a leader of cross border business units as well as in global business development, strategy and M&A for the Adecco Group and Lee Hecht Harrison in Zurich, Paris (2006-2007) and New York (2008-2009) while at the same time leading several key sales and account management teams for some of the division's largest clients. Most recently he led LHH’s EMEA region as well as the company’s global digital strategy.
Prior to joining Lee Hecht Harrison, he worked as partner and strategy consultant at Ziel Consulting, a boutique M&A and growth strategy firm based in Zurich, driving the company's growth during its start up phase.
His career began in 2001 at Monitor Group (today Monitor Deloitte), gathering working experience as strategy consultant with a focus on market entry and growth topics in different Continental European countries. Ranjit holds an M.A. (lic. rer. publ. HSG) in economics, law and political science from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and studied at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva (HEI). Between 2002 and 2005, he also was an assistant lecturer for Swiss public and private law at the University of St. Gallen.
He has a passion for all topics around the future of work, and the trends and impact of digital and machine learning, as well as the business social and individual implications.
Ranjit lives in Zurich with his wife Karin and their 3 children Raúl (7), and his twin girls Riccarda (3) and Leonor (3). He is a keen skier and runner and he enjoys playing and watching soccer, especially his home teams of Arsenal London and Basel.
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