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Dominic Casserley

Dominic Casserley is the managing partner of the U.K. & Middle East offices of McKinsey.  Dominic is British and was educated in the U.K., but his professional career has been spent in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. 

Casserley joined McKinsey in New York in 1983 and spent 12 years serving financial institution clients in the U.S.  At the end of 1994 he moved to Hong Kong to lead McKinsey's Greater China office (covering mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan).  He moved to London from Hong Kong at the end of 1999 to be leader of the firm's European Banking & Securities Practice before becoming managing partner of the U.K. in 2003.

Casserley's personal consulting practice has been almost entirely focused on serving leading financial institutions.  He has served banks, insurance companies, securities firms, and other financial service companies around the world on their key strategic, organizational, systems, and operational issues.

In December 1991, Casserley's book Facing up to the Risks: How Financial Institutions Can Survive and Prosper was published in April 1993.  The Japanese edition was published in January 1994, a Korean edition came out in 1995, and the Chinese edition in 1997.  He co-authored the book Banking in Asia, The End of Entitlement, which was published in early 1999 in English and later in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

At the end of 1987, Casserley was asked by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to serve on the staff of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (the Brady Commission), which reviewed the causes of the October 1987 market break and proposed steps to mitigate a future dramatic market decline. 

Casserley has undertaken various pro bono projects.  In New York he was a David Rockefeller Fellow from 1991 to 1992.  He served on the Board of the Manhattan Theatre Club from 1991 to 1994, including acting as Treasurer.  He is on the Board of the Donmar theatre in London.  In 1999, he assisted the Asia Society set its strategies in Hong Kong and New York.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Casserley spent more than 3 years with Morgan Grenfell & Company, a British merchant bank, working in both its investment management and merger and acquisition groups, and he completed the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company management training program in New York. 

He read history at Cambridge University, where he was also President of the Cambridge Union Society.  He is married with three children.

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