Michael is a senior partner in London and also serves as the managing partner of McKinsey UK, Ireland, and Israel. He was elected by his fellow partners to serve on McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, which functions as the firm’s global board of directors. Previously, Michael was global co-leader of the firm’s Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice and a member of the McKinsey Global Institute Council.
Michael counsels bold and determined leaders striving to make a difference. When partnering with them, he integrates across McKinsey’s breadth of advisory and delivery capabilities—from strategy to transformation, operations to marketing, technology to business building. He has served companies around the world across a diverse set of industries, as well as institutions in the public and social sectors. His deepest sector expertise is in energy, materials, and industrials.
Committed to helping talented leaders succeed as individuals, Michael has co-led McKinsey’s research on CEO excellence. His other research, writing, and speaking covers themes such as strategic courage, choosing growth, the next arenas of competition, geopolitics and the geometry of global trade, and the role of business in society.
Energized by creativity, Michael is deputy chair of the British Film Institute and a governor of the Royal College of Art. He has previously been a director of BritishAmerican Business and a trustee of the Marshall Scholarships and World Schools Debating Championships. In 2016, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Based in the UK, Michael also worked in McKinsey’s San Francisco and Mumbai offices. He holds a first-class degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from the University of Oxford and an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School.
