About Byron
Byron Auguste is the global leader of the Social Sector Office, which serves leading institutions on some of their most pressing societal challenges. He works across the private, public, and non-profit sectors globally, on issues related to economic development, technology, and education.
In the social sector, Byron has worked with a range of institutions including multilateral development agencies, innovative non-profit organizations and public-private partnerships, and major philanthropic foundations. He also has extensive experience serving clients in public education, working with school districts, state education agencies, charter management organizations, and federal agencies.
Byron has authored numerous reports and spoken at universities, industry roundtables, and public policy forums on topics related education, economic development, job creation, innovation, technology, and globalization. In June 2011, Byron co-authored “An economy that works,” which analyzes the causes of slow job creation and the implications for future job growth.
Byron is the co-founder and board chairman of Hope Street Group, a nationwide, nonpartisan, volunteer organization of professionals and entrepreneurs who promote public policies that expand economic opportunity. He also serves on the board of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He was appointed by President Obama to the White House Council for Community Solutions in 2010, and elected a Successor Trustee of the Yale Corporation in 2011.
Before joining McKinsey & Company in 1993, Byron received a doctorate in economics and worked as an economist at the African Development Bank, LMC International, and Oxford University’s Foreign Service Program.
Published work
“An economy that works: Job creation and America's future,” a McKinsey report, June 2011
“Growth and renewal in the US: Retooling America's economic engine,” The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), Feb. 2011
“Closing the talent gap: Attracting and retaining top-third graduates to careers in teaching,” a McKinsey report, Sept. 2010
“The most dynamic economies rely on creative destruction to grow,” Newsweek Magazine, August 16, 2010
“The economic cost of the US education gap,” McKinsey Quarterly, June 2009
“Changing the fortunes of America’s workforce: A human capital challenge,” The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), June 2009
“The Economics of International Payments Unions and Clearing Houses,” Palgrave Macmillan Press, 1997
Experience
| Oxford University |
Lecturer, Int. trade and finance |
1990-1993 |
| Landell Mills Commodities International |
Research economist |
1990-1991 |
Education
| Oxford University |
DPhil |
| Oxford University |
MPhil |
| Yale University |
BA |