Ezra is a leader in McKinsey’s Strategy & Corporate Finance and Global Energy & Materials practices. He is also the global leader of our work on macroeconomic scenarios, advising clients on critical strategy and investment decisions under uncertainty.
Ezra has been at the center of McKinsey’s global response to macroeconomics and geopolitics through the COVID-19 crisis and the ongoing economic and geopolitical volatility and uncertainty globally. He has coauthored some of McKinsey’s core publications during this period and regularly leads discussions with top management teams, boards, and multi-client gatherings on these topics.
Examples of his recent client work include:
- helping a top US building products distributor develop and implement a comprehensive organic, inorganic growth, and digital innovation strategy
- working with a top-three gold mining company seeking to successfully navigate the wide range of potential macroeconomic and climate change scenarios over the next decade
- supporting a leading Canadian polyethylene manufacturer seeking to develop new technologies to capture the unprecedented shifts and opportunities created by circularity
Ezra rejoined McKinsey in 2013, after working three years at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, where he helped manage the Client Service Research Team responsible for explaining Bridgewater’s investment philosophy, its performance, and its evolving views about markets and the global economy to clients.
During his first ten years with McKinsey, Ezra was a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, our business and economics research arm, and cofounded the North American Knowledge Center, a center of excellence for business research and advanced analytics. He led research on a range of topics, including the emergence of China and India, demographics, and consumer behavior, and played a principal role in the development and client dissemination of McKinsey’s global macro scenarios during the 2008–2009 financial crisis.
Ezra previously was based in McKinsey’s Boston and Washington, DC, offices.
