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British investor, strategist and author (born 1962)
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Ketan Patel (born February 1962) is a British investor and author. He is the co-founder and chief executive of the investment firm Greater Pacific Capital (GPC).[1]
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 Ketan Patel, Co-Founder and CEO of Greater Pacific Capital. | |
| Born | February 1962 (age 64) |
| Occupations | Investor; strategist; author |
| Known for | Founder of the Strategic Group at Goldman Sachs; co-founder and CEO of Greater Pacific Capital |
| Notable work | The Master Strategist |
Patel previously served as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he founded and led the firm's Strategic Group.[2] Earlier in his career, he was a partner at KPMG.[3]
He is the author of The Master Strategist (2005).[4]
Early life and education
Patel was born in February 1962 and grew up in London.[5] He graduated with a BSc in economics from the London School of Economics and completed an MBA at City University Business School.[5] He holds the ACMA qualification from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and undertook postgraduate study in neuroscience at King's College London.[5]
Career
Goldman Sachs and KPMG
Patel worked at Hewlett-Packard before joining KPMG, where he became a partner.[3] He later joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in its investment banking division and founded the bank's Strategic Group.[2] A 2003 profile in The Globe and Mail described him as Goldman Sachs’ “chief futurologist”.[2]
Greater Pacific Capital
In 2005, Patel left Goldman Sachs and co-founded Greater Pacific Capital, a London-based investment firm.[1] In 2007, the firm was reported to be bidding jointly with Torrent Pharmaceuticals for Merck’s generics business in a transaction valued at approximately US$5 billion.[1]
In 2018, GPC announced the first close of a US$700 million India-focused fund at US$300 million.[6] The same year, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation committed US$125 million to one of the firm’s funds.[7]
Force for Good Initiative
Patel founded the Force for Good Initiative, which publishes research on investment, technology and sustainable development.[8] Its publications include Capital as a Force for Good and The World Investment Plan (2025).[9][10]
Institutional roles
Patel is an executive director and trustee of the World Academy of Art and Science.[11] He has contributed to the Academy’s journal, Cadmus.[12]
Ideas and writings
Patel’s published work addresses geopolitics, capital allocation and systemic transitions in the international order.[13][14]
In academic publications, he has examined historical patterns of great-power transition and their implications for contemporary strategic positioning.[13] He has also argued that constraints on development progress relate more to allocation mechanisms and risk pricing than to aggregate capital scarcity.[14]
His commentary has addressed sustainable development, climate transition pathways and digital public infrastructure in emerging markets.[15][16][17]
Reception
The Master Strategist was reviewed in Business Standard, which discussed Patel’s emphasis on purpose and principle in strategic thinking.[18] An endorsement quotation attributed to Nelson Mandela has appeared on editions of the book.[4]
Personal life
Patel lives in London and has cited meditation and long-distance running among his interests.[3]
Selected works
- The Master Strategist: Power, Purpose and Principle (Hutchinson, 2005).[4]
- “American hegemony at a critical juncture” (with Christian Hansmeyer et al.), Frontiers in Political Science (2025).[13]
- “Funding the Sustainable Development Goals is Not a Challenge of Sufficient Capital” (with co-authors), Cadmus (2025).[14]
- The World Investment Plan (Force for Good, 2025).[9]
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