Dominic Barton is the managing partner of McKinsey's Seoul office, where he has worked for the past five years. A leader in McKinsey's financial institutions practice, he has advised the Korean Financial Supervisory Commission on restructuring its banking system as well as on strategy with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Prior to moving to Seoul, he was based in Toronto, where he spent eleven years serving a range of Canadian, U.S., and Asian corporations and governments. He is also a member of the firm's shareholder council (a number of directors acting as board to the firm) and partner review committee and has been a leader in the field of corporate governance particularly as it pertains to management in Asia. Dominic has spoken internationally on various financial topics. He has also written articles for and has been interviewed in a wide range of publications, including Fortune, Institutional Investor, the Daily Telegraph, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Maeil Business Newspaper, and the Hankook Ilbo. Born in Canada, he holds an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a B.A. degree in economics with first class honors from the University of British Columbia. Roberto Newell is a former partner at McKinsey & Company, where he led projects for governments and private sector clients in financial crisis. Dr. Newell has served clients immersed in financial crises throughout the Americas, including Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. A Mexican citizen, he is currently CEO of FESSA (Fondo de las Empresas Expropiadas del Sector Azucarero), a Mexican government entity charged with turning around and privatizing twenty-seven failed sugar mills. With Luis Rubio F., Newell wrote Mexico's Dilemma: The Political Origins of Economic Crisis, an award-winning book on Mexico's financial crisis of the 1980s.
Gregory Wilson is a partner in McKinsey & Company's Washington, D.C., office, specializing in strategic regulatory issues that affect the firm's global financial services clients in both the private and public sectors. He has worked on financial sector restructuring in countries around the world, particularly in Asia and South America. Prior to joining McKinsey, during the U.S. savings and loan crisis, Greg served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he received the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award. Greg also served as the Republican staff director for the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives. Born in Ohio, Greg has a B.A. in history, and politics and government from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He also attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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