David Skilling is a senior fellow with the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), based
in Singapore. David's first MGI project assessed the costs and benefits of
reserve currency status to the United States and the eurozone and drew out a
series of implications for both companies and the global exchange rate system
more generally.
Previously David was an associate principal with
McKinsey & Company's Public Sector Practice, with which he retains an
affiliation. Prior to joining McKinsey at the start of 2009, David was founding
chief executive of the New Zealand Institute, a privately funded, nonpartisan
think tank, which focused on achieving significant impact in important areas of
policy including savings policy, broadband policy, foreign policy, and climate
change strategy. David has also been a principal adviser at the New Zealand
Treasury, where he worked primarily on economic growth issues.
David has
a Ph.D. in public policy and a master in public policy degree from Harvard
University, as well as a master of commerce (hons) degree in economics from the
University of Auckland. He was a teaching fellow at Harvard University for three
years and has also worked at the OECD and Deloitte. David is a member of the
board of the New Zealand Institute and was awarded the inaugural Young Alumnus
of the Year award from the University of Auckland in 2006. He was elected as a
Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008.
