About Vivian
Vivian Hunt is a director in McKinsey’s London office and leads our Pharmaceuticals & Medical Products Practice in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She serves leading pharmaceutical companies on a broad range of strategy, development and organisational topics.
Recent examples of Vivian’s work include support for innovative payor collaborations at health technology assessment and regional payor level, including health economic collaborations with acute hospitals. Vivian has also advised on due diligence and post-merger integration in a number of recent global pharmaceutical transactions, including extensive work in China.
Vivian has supported the development of corporate and commercial strategy and operational plans for more than 25 major prescription and over-the-counter drugs in therapeutic areas such as hypertension, diabetes, respiratory, thrombosis, depression, sexual health and oncology. She has worked with primary care trusts, acute and mental health trusts and a range of other healthcare bodies on topics such as brand and channel performance, industry consolidation, regulatory change and global turnaround strategy.
Vivian serves on the board of several UK charities, including the Henry Smith Charity and Action on Addiction. She came third in the Powerlist 2012 Top Ten of influential black people in the UK. Within McKinsey, she is a leader of the BCSS—a network for black client service staff—committed to recruiting fair share of black talent to McKinsey and facilitating connectivity and mentoring relationships within the BCSS community and the firm.
Before joining McKinsey, Vivian worked in management and performance-improvement roles in the healthcare and consumer sectors. She has also worked as a regional coordinator, midwife and volunteer in the US Peace Corps in Senegal and as a healthcare project director in New York.
Published work
“Winning launches: Using analytics and creativity to create superior share of insight” (PDF–909 KB), McKinsey, June 2012
“A wake-up call for Big Pharma,” McKinsey Quarterly, December 2011
Education
| LEAP Inc. |
Healthcare project director |
1993 |
| Booz, Allen & Hamilton |
Research associate |
1991-1992 |
| US Peace Corps |
Senegal regional supervisor |
1989-1991 |
Education
| Harvard University, Graduate School of Business |
MBA, Business administration |
| Harvard University |
AB, Sociology |