The key facts
- The Tashkent city administration plans to engage McKinsey & Company to improve the city's governance system
- The talks covered the implementation of the Tashkent-2030 program and the experience of Beijing, Riyadh, Dubai, and Moscow
- The parties agreed to work on cooperation in training managerial personnel
Tashkent city administration intends to engage McKinsey & Company
The Tashkent city administration plans to engage the American international consulting firm McKinsey & Company to improve the city's governance system. This was reported by Gazeta, citing the city administration's press service. The directions and stages of cooperation were discussed at a meeting between the capital's mayor Shavkat Umurzakov and a company delegation led by global managing partner Bob Sternfels.
What was discussed at the meeting
According to the press service, the talks focused on forming a unified approach to implementing the Tashkent-2030 development program, improving the urban governance system, and increasing the effectiveness of strategic initiatives. Particular attention, the statement notes, was given to how to translate strategic decisions into concrete projects and evaluate their results. The parties also reviewed the development experience of major metropolises — Beijing, Riyadh, Dubai, and Moscow — and discussed which governance approaches from that practice could be applied in Tashkent.
Staff training and the nature of cooperation
The city administration and the company agreed to work on issues of training, development, and professional advancement of personnel, including managers: under the planned cooperation, McKinsey & Company specialists are expected to be involved in training employees of city services. In a comment to Gazeta, the city administration's press service emphasized that this is not simply about hiring a consulting firm, but about a strategic partnership, and that the company's extensive international experience could be useful for the development of the capital.
What is known about the company and the status of the agreements
McKinsey & Company is an international firm in strategic and management consulting, founded in 1926 in the United States. It advises government bodies, international corporations, and financial institutions on long-term strategies, governance improvement, digital transformation, artificial intelligence implementation, operational efficiency, and talent development. No specific directions, stages, or terms of cooperation have been reported yet — they were only discussed at the meeting, and no signed agreements are mentioned in the publication.
