About François
François Jurd de Girancourt is a partner at McKinsey’s Paris office, where he is one of the senior figures in the Financial Services Practice, with special responsibility for corporate and investment banking and for infrastructure finance.
His core area of expertise covers the main wholesale-banking business—especially capital and stock-market activities—investment banking, corporate-banking services, and asset management. In these fields, François supports global-scale players on questions of strategy, growth, performance, and operational efficiency, and on post-merger integration management. He also assists commercial and investment banks in sub-Saharan Africa.
In parallel with his financial services role, François is a member of the McKinsey Infrastructure Practice, where he advises on financing plans for large-scale infrastructure projects.
Before joining McKinsey, François worked at Citigroup for four years as a trader on the bond market.
François Jurd de Girancourt is an HEC graduate and has an MBA from Wharton (University of Pennsylvania).
Published work
“Day of reckoning? New regulation and its impact on capital-markets businesses,” McKinsey Working Papers on Risk, October 2011 (PDF–1 MB)
“Winning in flow: Scale is everything,” Global Corporate and Investment Banking Practice, May 2012 (PDF–512 KB)
“Global corporate and investment banking: An agenda for change,” Global Corporate and Investment Banking Practice, May 2012 (PDF–3.57 MB)
Experience
| Salomon Brothers/Citigroup |
Trading |
Education
| HEC |
MSc in finance and management |
| University of Pennsylvania, Wharton |
MBA |