As a senior partner in McKinsey’s Risk & Resilience Practice and the global leader of our work in nonfinancial and market risk, Anke specializes in driving large-scale risk transformations at financial institutions and corporations. She has extensive experience serving clients globally on risk management as she has worked from McKinsey offices in Germany and the UK, spent a year in the US, and is now based in Australia, also serving clients in Asia.
Anke is passionate about a variety of risk disciplines, including nonfinancial risk and operational resilience, three lines of defense (3LoD), risk and culture transformation, AI governance and risk management, enterprise risk management, climate risk, financial crime, and market and trading risk.
Recent examples of Anke’s work include:
- leading multiyear risk and culture transformation programs in response to supervisory enforcement actions
- establishing best-in-class nonfinancial risk frameworks and 3LoD operating models
- establishing AI governance and risk management to support accelerated AI adoption
- operationalizing net-zero strategy and climate risk measurement and practices
- developing and implementing enterprise risk management frameworks
- establishing market risk methodologies, including value at risk and portfolio stress testing
- uplifting financial crime management and leading stress testing and capital management programs such as US Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR).
Additionally, Anke drives diversity and inclusion at McKinsey, and holds several global roles in risk and resilience and corporate and investment banking.







