Ida Kristensen

About Ida

Ida is the global co-convener and North American lead for the Risk & Resilience Practice, as well as the lead for our Cybersecurity Practice. She advises clients on a range of risk- and regulatory-related issues, from cybersecurity, operational risk, and compliance to capital management, broader enterprise risk-management strategy and regulatory transformation efforts. She leads our global cybersecurity work and is also the people leader for the consulting community.

Ida has more than fifteen years of consulting experience in advising clients on risk. In that time, she has helped clients design and implement an enterprise risk-management function, led our work supporting a multiyear comprehensive capital-analysis and review program at a top US bank, and worked with clients to redesign operational risk and compliance functions to meet heightened regulatory expectations.

Before joining McKinsey, Ida was a director at a consultancy specializing in risk management, where she worked on a variety of projects, including scoring models, economic-capital modeling, collection optimization, and limit setting.