Vikram Balasubramanian has started work with McKinsey in San Francisco. As a 2024 Mitchell Scholar, he studied Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with degrees in Philosophy in the School of Arts and Sciences, and Statistics at the Wharton School. Vikram is interested in combining philosophy with data science to solve social problems. He was a member of the Penn Debate Society and the Philomathean Society, America’s oldest continuously-existing literary society. He was also a cellist in the Penn Baroque Ensemble. As a research assistant at Penn Medicine and the Computational Social Science Center, Vikram was a co-author of several medical publications. At McKinsey & Co. and QualRisk, he analyzed bank and insurance markets and examined how to increase federal regulatory compliance. As a Project Leader for MUSE Social Impact Consulting, Vikram led four analytical projects for non-profits, including the World Wildlife Fund UK and Teach for America, to determine the effectiveness of their initiatives. Seeking to support his generation’s thinking about the accumulation of wealth, he was an Effective Altruism Cambridge Fellow and served as a grant writer for One for the World, a non-profit that aims to persuade young professionals to donate 1% of their lifetime salary to philanthropic organizations. He was previously a Salaam Fellow for Conflict Resolution and a National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship recipient.