Lars Faeste

Lars Faeste serves as Chairman of FTI Consulting’s EMEA region, where he focuses on helping clients transform and achieve success through crisis and large corporate events. Lars specialises in company transformations, special situations and crisis, having supported more than 15 end-to-end successful transformations often generating two-to-three times their valuation over 18-36 months. He has worked with clients globally including in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. Throughout his career, Lars has been responsible for advising on large-scale transformations, complex turnaround projects and navigating major disruptions.

Lars currently leads FTI Consulting’s business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He also sits on the firm’s Executive Committee.

Lars joined the firm following a 24-year career at Boston Consulting Group, Inc (“BCG”), where he led a number of successful programs, including the firm’s global transformation practice and its businesses in Greater China, the Nordics and the Commonwealth of Independent States. He also founded BCG TURN (now BCG Transform), and sat on BCG’s global ExCom.

Lars, a Danish native, lives in the UK and has previously lived in USA, China, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Russia and he grew up in north Africa. Prior to consulting, Lars worked at A.P. Moller Maersk. Lars holds an Engineering degree from the Technical University of Denmark, DTU, and an M.B.A. from the Rotterdam School of Management at the Erasmus University in the Netherlands.