Jonathan Woetzel is a director in McKinsey & Company's Greater China office (Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei), and leader of its corporate finance practice in China. A co-founder of McKinsey's Shanghai office, where he has been based since 1994, Dr. Woetzel has also worked in McKinsey's Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York, and Zurich offices.

Dr. Woetzel holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Southern California, where his work focused on China's international political economy. His 1989 book, China's Economic Opening to the Outside World, examined China's first decade of economic reform, and was among the first to foresee the impact of China's economic revolution, both on its domestic politics and on the global economy.

In his 18 years with McKinsey, Dr. Woetzel has advised a broad range of Chinese and multinational companies on strategic, organizational, and operational issues. His work has encompassed the automotive, food, healthcare, energy, pharmaceuticals and medical products, chemicals, steel, and natural resources sectors.

Recently, Dr. Woetzel has helped a Chinese company accomplish the then largest listing of a foreign company on the New York Stock Exchange. He has advised on the financing strategies for leading Asian companies in telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, metals, private equity, and environmental services. Dr. Woetzel has also helped the State Economic Commission of China in developing regulatory and other initiatives to improve the foreign investment environment in China, and advised city governments in China on their industrial and urban renewal.

Dr. Woetzel is a frequent contributor to the McKinsey Quarterly, has published articles in The Asian Wall Street Journal and the South China Morning Post, and is quoted widely by Chinese and international media on a range of business issues.

Fluent in Mandarin, Dr. Woetzel lives with his family in Shanghai.