Holger Harreis

About Holger

Holger is passionate about data and analytics and risk, and about helping his clients manage and execute large-scale, high-impact transformations. He serves companies in all sectors, with a focus on financial-services companies, including universal banks, investment banks, asset managers, regulators/supervisors and central banks, as well as retail, fashion, luxury, and telecommunications.

Holger, together with his teams, is at the forefront of helping organizations digitize their risk functions—transforming risk management for improved operational efficiency and effectiveness, while strengthening the quality and speed of decision making. In his work with data and risk management, he helps clients identify new revenue opportunities and navigate an ever-evolving regulatory landscape. Holger helps clients implement transformation rapidly, with groundbreaking levels of adoption and impact.

As a leader for the firm’s cross-sector global Data Transformation Practice, Holger helps institutions turn digital and analytics opportunities into business impact through enhancing access, granularity, quality and timeliness of data, offering a full stack across data management, governance, organization, culture, ethics, architecture, technology, and implementation.

As a frequent author and thought leader on our preeminent knowledge efforts, Holger and his global practice teams have worked on foundational research efforts in the data and risk/regulatory spaces, collaborating with industry associations like the Institute of International Finance (IIF) and large industry working groups. In addition, Holger convenes executive forums on risk operating models, digital risk, and data transformations—data summits across Asia, Europe, and the Americas for chief risk officers and risk chief operations officers. Holger regularly speaks at industry events, including the IIF fora, RiskMinds International, and the G-20Y. His research and perspectives are regularly cited and quoted in leading publications.

Before joining McKinsey, Holger was a theoretical physicist investigating the behavior of DNA aggregates in different conditions.