During Matt’s 25 years at McKinsey, he has served as the leader of our Electric Power & Natural Gas, Oil & Gas, and Sustainability Practices as well as supporting energy clients globally. His work currently focuses on unconventional resources in North America, the restructuring of US power markets, and the role of technology and innovation in reshaping market dynamics, capital productivity, and operational efficiency in the oil, gas, and power industries.
Between 2009 and 2010, Matt served as the senior advisor to the US Secretary of Energy, managing the Department of Energy’s Recovery Act appropriations. These funded more than 5,000 projects in energy efficiency, advanced transportation, renewable energy, transmission and distribution infrastructure, carbon capture and sequestration, environmental clean-up, and basic and applied science.
Matt has written and spoken extensively on oil, gas, power, and resource markets. In his 2014 book Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century (New Harvest, April 2014), cowritten with Stefan Heck, he argues that the combination of information technology with industrial technology is changing the way we produce and use natural resources and restructure energy, agriculture, transportation, and construction markets globally.
Published work
“Driving CO2 emissions to zero (and beyond) with carbon capture, use, and storage,” McKinsey Quarterly, June 2020
“Climate math: What a 1.5-degree pathway would take,” McKinsey Quarterly, April 2020
“Why, and how, utilities should start to manage climate-change risk,” McKinsey & Company, April 2019
“How residential energy storage could help support the power grid,” McKinsey & Company, March 2019
“Unlocking future growth for deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico,” McKinsey & Company, July 2018
“Hawaii’s quest to become a low-carbon leader,” McKinsey & Company, April 2018
“Why the future of commercial battery storage is bright,” McKinsey & Company, April 2018
“What every utility CEO should know about blockchain,” McKinsey & Company, March 2018
“The tipping point for renewable energy is nearly here,” MarketWatch, February 2017
“How technology is reshaping supply and demand for natural resources,” McKinsey Global Institute, February 2017
“Five technologies for the next ten years,” McKinsey & Company, September 2016
“How resource scarcity is driving the third Industrial Revolution,” McKinsey Quarterly, April 2014
Resource Revolution: Capturing the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century, April 2014
“Are you ready for the resource revolution?” McKinsey Quarterly, March 2014
“Implications of light tight oil growth for refiners in North America and worldwide,” Perspectives on downstream oil and gas, January 2014
“Battery technology charges ahead,” McKinsey Quarterly, July 2012
“Five technologies to watch,” McKinsey Quarterly, January 2012
Past experience
Credit Suisse First Boston
Energy investment banking analyst
Education
School of Management, Yale University
MBA
Princeton University
BA