Alexis leads McKinsey’s climate analytics work globally, advising and serving companies across financial services, corporates, and the public sector on topics related to climate risk, resilience, and adaptation. This includes a significant focus on helping clients make data-based decisions to assess and address the impacts of climate change.
By collaborating with her clients, Alexis helps them understand preparedness for climate-related hazards and risks, develop actions to adapt and to embed climate risk management in decision making, and develop strategies to drive growth in the face of a changing climate. She works to continually assess the impact of physical hazards on lives and livelihoods, with a focus on vulnerable places and people globally.
A core leader of the McKinsey Sustainability and Risk & Resilience Practices, Alexis also developed McKinsey’s strategy for climate analytics and helps to build the firm’s ecosystem of partnerships with climate risk capability vendors.
Her recent work includes the following:
- leading development of capabilities for evaluating infrastructure adaptation to forward-looking climate risks for an investor
- developing a resilience assessment framework that accounts for physical hazard risks and existing mitigation and adaptation for a client in the utilities sector
- supporting a North American bank’s initiative to build climate risk-scenario analysis capabilities, including data strategy and stress testing of real estate and large-cap portfolios
- supporting a leading global retailer in communicating exposure to climate risk in a Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)