Social Sector Office

McKinsey assists nonprofits, alliances, and the public sector in improving the lives of people around the world. We focus mainly on global public health, economic development and opportunity creation, and philanthropy.

Social Sector Office

Tackling the World’s Toughest Problems

7 minutes

Hear our consultants talk about the work they do in the Social Sector Office: why they do it, how, and what kinds of challenges they solve.

Societal impact

We help leading institutions tackle some of the world’s most difficult societal problems

Leaders of foundations, NGOs, intergovernmental agencies, and global corporations rely on McKinsey to help them respond to important societal challenges.

“The work I’ve done at McKinsey—large-scale transformation programs, often on a national scale, and institution building—showed me what was possible.”

Ashok Alexander
Alumnus, Director of India AIDS Initiative, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Complex problems—such as global poverty and access to quality health care—require collaboration among the public, private, and social sectors to achieve progress.

We take on these challenges as we do every challenge—by applying our unique capabilities, including a global network of experienced leaders, industry expertise, functional skills, and integrated problem solving.

And we have the same expectations for our work in the social sector as we do for our work in other sectors: substantial and lasting impact.