Charles Roxburgh is a director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI),
McKinsey & Company's economics research arm, and a director (senior partner)
of McKinsey based in London. From 2006 to 2009 he led McKinsey’s Global
Corporate and Investment Banking Practice based in New York. He previously led
McKinsey’s U.K. Financial Institutions Practice and was also a co-leader of
McKinsey's Strategy Practice worldwide.
In his client work, Charles has served a wide range of financial institutions on issues of strategy, risk management, and organization. He has extensive experience in both retail and wholesale banking and in all segments of the insurance industry in Europe, the United States, and Asia. In addition to working with large banks and insurance companies, he has also served hedge funds and private-equity investors. He has served a major regulatory body on its top-level organization and regulatory strategy and has contributed to a number of McKinsey projects addressing financial-center competitiveness. He has also served leading trade associations on issues concerning the industry’s response to the current financial crisis.
Charles is a frequent speaker on the investment banking industry, and he has led several major research efforts at McKinsey. His recent work has focused on trends in European investment banking and the organizational and cultural challenges faced by investment banks and asset managers. He edited a McKinsey Quarterly anthology and authored a number of articles on strategy and scenario planning that appeared in the McKinsey Quarterly, the Journal of Long Range Planning, and the Journal of Problem Solving. Charles has been an advisor on several MGI research projects on global capital markets and coauthored a 2009 MGI report that examined how petrodollars, Asian sovereign investors, hedge funds, and private equity are faring in the financial crisis.
Charles holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a first-class degree in classics from Trinity College, Cambridge. He lives in London with his wife and their two sons.
