About Stephen
Stephen Hall is a director in McKinsey’s London office and leads our work on energy and basic materials in the UK. He works extensively in the energy and mining sectors, serving clients across Europe, North America and Asia on a broad array of strategic and performance-related topics.
Stephen is also a leader of our work on corporate strategy, a co-leader of our global Strategy Practice and the leader of McKinsey’s Directors Forum, an annual programme training senior executives from top UK and European companies in their responsibilities as non-executive board directors. His functional expertise is focused on business unit and corporate strategy, portfolio optimisation and resource allocation.
His recent projects include leading McKinsey’s support for a cross-border post-merger integration between two major European energy companies, advising on the reconfiguration of the operations of a global metals and mining company, assisting a leading US energy company in developing a market-entry strategy for Europe, counselling a Middle East investment company on strategy and organization and developing an integrated organisation agenda for a major North Sea oil company.
Before joining McKinsey, Stephen served as a lieutenant in the Parachute Regiment and worked with Shell as a petroleum engineer. He graduated as a Russell Palmer scholar with an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a degree in economics, engineering and management from the University of Oxford.
Published work
“How to put your money where your strategy is,” McKinsey Quarterly, March 2012
“The power of an independent corporate center,” McKinsey Quarterly, March 2012
Past experience
| Shell |
Project and petroleum engineer |
1986-1989 |
| Parachute Regiment |
Lieutenant |
1985-1986 |
Education
| Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
MBA, Business administration |
| University of Oxford |
MA, Economics, engineering and management |