India, Aug. 4 -- A former McKinsey & Company associate partner has shared why she decided to move back to India permanently after spending more than 13 years in the United States.

In a LinkedIn post, Dr Neeraja Nagarajan, who recently concluded her 7-year stint at McKinsey, said the decision was driven by a combination of professional ambition, personal values and desire to be closer to home.

"Every rational framework - and most well-meaning mentors - said stay. Stay in the US. Stay at McKinsey. I'm three months into having permanently moved to India. Here's why," Neeraja wrote in the LinkedIn post.

Neeraja said that she left India more than a decade ago to study and work at some of the world's leading institutions while building an id...