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Sir Alcon Copisarow, top consultant and friend to royalty, dies aged 97

Civil servant who worked with Churchill and Wilson before becoming McKinsey's first non-American partner

August 3, 2017 16:02
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Sir Alcon Copisarow, the civil servant who in a long and varied career helped reorganise the Bank of England and worked with royalty and Sir Winston Churchill, has died at the age of 97.

He was born in 1920 in Moss Side, Manchester, to a family of Jewish émigrés from the Russian empire.

During the Second World War he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, before entering the civil service, where he spent two decades.

In 1966, he was tempted into the private sector, where he became the first non-American senior partner of McKinsey & Company, where he worked on projects including the re-organisation of the Bank of England, and the restructuring of the Conservative Party Central Office in 1977 at the request of then opposition leader, Margaret Thatcher.