Pierre is McKinsey’s Chief Legal Officer and a member of the firm’s management team. He leads the global Legal and Public Affairs functions.
Pierre brings over 30 years of experience in business, law, public service, and academia. He was a partner in the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel and a managing director and senior legal and risk officer at financial services firm Credit Suisse. Pierre also served in the US Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He has been recognized as a leading lawyer by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The American Lawyer and numerous other media. Pierre regularly advises general counsel and other executives on the design and management of corporate functions.
Pierre serves on the advisory boards of Princeton University’s Center for Public Policy and Finance, and Cambridge University’s Judge School of Business. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s chief legal officer community, has served on many of the WEF’s global agenda councils, and was a WEF young global leader. He has been a Trustee of the Practicing Law Institute, the Touro Synagogue Foundation, and Columbia Law School’s Center for Israeli Legal Studies. Pierre also chaired the board of Princeton University’s Center for Jewish Life and is a recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s Human Relations Award.
Pierre is a frequent university speaker. In the 2024–25 academic year, he will be Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He has served as Leader in Residence at Columbia Law School, Summer Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University, and Lecturer in Ethics at the Wharton School of Business. Pierre co-edited a book on alternative dispute resolution in the financial services sector, and during the COVID-19 lockdown, he taught a virtual course exploring the relationship between American poetry, religious thought, and blues music.
Pierre holds an AB from Princeton University and a JD from Columbia University.