Ms. Carol Liao is the first female Head of BCG Greater China. She joined BCG in 1995, with more than 20 years of consulting experience and deep expertise, focusing on strategy, climate & “dual carbon”, family business, Industry 4.0, digital transformation and innovation, Internet strategy, big data, consumer insight and organizational improvement.
In 2022, Carol was listed on the 2022 Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in China. In 2018, she was awarded FT & HERoes Champions of Women in Business by Financial Times. And in 2016, Carol won a Women Leaders in Consulting Award from Consulting magazine, the industry’s premier trade publication.
Carol is a frequent guest speaker at top-level commercial forums, and has coauthored many influential publications, such as Untangling Conflict: An Introspective Guide for Families in Business (Penguin Random House, 2022), China’s Pathway to Net Zero (CITIC Publishing House, 2021), Digital in China (CITIC Publishing House, 2021), The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), The Longevity Secret of Chinese Family Business, The Art of Inheritance in Family Business, What Top Performing Asian Leaders Do Differently, The Soft Rules of Family Businesses, A Practice Guide to Corporate Sustainable Development in China 2022 (in collaboration with APEC), and Business Revolution in the Digital Era (in collaboration with China Development Research Foundation). She also interviewed more than a dozen of top-performing Asian leaders and published the most popular “Asia Leaders Speak” series on BCG՚s WeChat platform.
Carol holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a BA degree of commercial law from Beijing University.
