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Left: Sankalp Malhotra works in Manhattan at McKinsey & Company, having gained a BSc in Systems and Information Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartford College.
Five boroughs. Eight and a half million people. Eight hundred languages. New York City is one of the most iconic metropolises in the world. Yet some commentators have suggested the buzz has been leaving New York in favour of Silicon Valley and the world’s new urban centres such as Shanghai, Bangalore and Rio de Janeiro. And maybe that might have been true 10 years ago. But today, a new spirit is taking hold. Maybe it’s the potential to bring legacy industries such as finance alongside new tech. Maybe it’s the opening of new HQs for companies such as Google and Etsy. Maybe it’s the sheer power of East Coast sophistication. But whatever it is, over the past five years, New York has become one of the most popular destinations for one rather select group of people: ZIS alumni. Sankalp Malhotra, Class of 2001 (1987-2001), reckons that New York’s ‘resurgence’ is really about a city that has never gone away. “There’s a
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