Our People
MGI Leadership

Shubham Singhal
Senior PartnerDetroit

Chris Bradley
McKinsey Global Institute Director and Senior PartnerSydney

Kweilin Ellingrud
McKinsey Global Institute Director and Senior PartnerMinneapolis

Sylvain Johansson
McKinsey Global Institute Director and Senior PartnerGeneva

Nick Leung
McKinsey Global Institute Director and Senior PartnerHong Kong

Olivia White
McKinsey Global Institute Director and Senior PartnerBay Area

Arvind Govindarajan
PartnerBoston

Mekala Krishnan
McKinsey Global Institute PartnerBoston

Anu Madgavkar
McKinsey Global Institute PartnerNew Jersey

Jan Mischke
McKinsey Global Institute PartnerZurich

Senior Fellows

Rebecca J. Anderson
Senior FellowWashington DC

Marc Canal
Senior FellowBarcelona

Kanmani Chockalingam
Senior FellowSeattle

Jeffrey Condon
Senior Knowledge ExpertAtlanta

Tiago Devesa
Senior FellowLisbon

Annabel Farr
Senior FellowDenver

Kevin Russell
Senior FellowCarolinas

Gurneet Singh Dandona
Senior Knowledge ExpertNew York
MGI Council

Marco Piccitto
Managing Partner, Mediterranean office and McKinsey Global Institute Council ChairMilan

Aamer Baig
Senior PartnerChicago

Andrés Cadena
Senior PartnerBogotá

Gemma D’Auria
Senior partnerMilan

Carolyn Dewar
Senior PartnerBay Area

Nelson Ferreira
Senior PartnerSão Paulo

Solveigh Hieronimus
Senior Partner, and Member, McKinsey Global Institute Council Munich

Vinayak HV
Senior PartnerSingapore

Noshir Kaka
Senior PartnerMumbai

Amit Khera
Senior PartnerGurugram

Dymfke Kuijpers
Senior PartnerBoston

Acha Leke
Senior PartnerJohannesburg

Clarisse Magnin
Senior PartnerParis

Tarek Mansour
Senior PartnerDubai

Jurica Novak
Senior PartnerWarsaw

Fransje van der Marel
Senior PartnerAmsterdam

Former chairs
Sven Smit
Senior Partner at McKinsey and the former chair of MGI. As chair of MGI, he led research and authors MGI reports on global economic trends and topics such as productivity and growth, urbanization, innovation and technology, labor markets, the future of work, emerging markets, the energy transition and climate adaptation, and Europe’s economic outlook. Previous roles Sven has held within McKinsey included chairing our Insights and Ecosystems work and leading the firm’s work in Western Europe and the global Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice.
James Manyika
Eric Labaye
Former Senior Partner at McKinsey and MGI chair until 2018 and served global corporations, financial institutions, and the public sector for more than 30 years. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Centerbridge and Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Morgan Stanley Europe SE. He is Member of the Supervisory Board of ALDI Nord Holding Stiftung GmbH, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Yttrium GmbH, Member of the Supervisory Board of IABG GmbH and Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Hertie Foundation.
Frank Mattern
Former Senior Partner at McKinsey and MGI chair until 2016 and served global corporations, financial institutions, and the public sector for more than 30 years. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Centerbridge and Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Morgan Stanley Europe SE. He is Member of the Supervisory Board of ALDI Nord Holding Stiftung GmbH, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Yttrium GmbH, Member of the Supervisory Board of IABG GmbH and Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Hertie Foundation.
Lenny Mendonca
Former chairman of MGI and firm's knowledge building efforts. Previously served as a McKinsey director and a public sector practice leader based in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. He previously served as the State of California's Chief Economic and Business Advisor and Director of the Office of Business and Economic Development, and Co-chair of California Forward.
Alumni
Diana Farrell
Led MGI from 2002–2008 and was a director of the McKinsey Center for Government. Served as deputy director of the US National Economic Council and deputy assistant to the president for economic policy under President Obama. Most recently, she was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the JPMorgan Chase Institute. Currently is an independent director and trustee of various organizations, including The Pew Charitable Trusts, eBay, Urban Institute, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the National Academies of Sciences’ Committee on National Statistics.
Ted Hall
Former director of McKinsey, led knowledge building efforts and had a 27-year career at the firm. He co-founded MGI and later served as its chairman.
William Lewis
Was a partner of McKinsey for 20 years and co-founding director of MGI from its founding in 1990 until his retirement from McKinsey in 2001.
Susan Lund
A former partner at MGI, served as Vice President, Economics and Private Sector Development at the International Finance Corporation in Washington, DC.
Sir Charles Roxburgh
Former London-based director of MGI and McKinsey senior partner. He also served as Director General of Financial Services at HM Treasury and as Second Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and is currently chair of Lloyds.
Lola Woetzel
Co-founded McKinsey's China office where she worked with Chinese and global businesses and served as a director of MGI from 2013-2025. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Global China Studies and Business at NYU and a Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University. She serves on the boards of Delterra, Tianjin Juilliard and Project Drawdown.
Lareina Yee
A former senior partner and MGI director, led McKinsey and MGI research on technology trends, AI, and the future of work and cofounded Women in the Workplace. She is currently a Vice President at Google.