The following is a list of notable former employees of McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm founded in 1926. This group is often referred to as a group in its own right.[1][2] According to the company's information, there are currently 34,000 McKinsey alumni working at over 15,000 organizations across the private, public, and social sectors in 120 countries.[3]
Business
edit- Vikram Akula – founder and former CEO of SKS Microfinance
- Imran Amed – founder of Business of Fashion
- Mahlon Apgar IV – founder of Apgar & Company
- Frank Appel – CEO of Deutsche Post DHL
- Delphine Arnault – Executive Vice President of Louis Vuitton
- Carter F. Bales – co-founder, chairman and Managing Partner of NewWorld Capital Group
- Sir John Banham – former director-general of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company and former chairman of Whitbread
- Bengt Baron – gold medalist at the 1980 Summer Olympics, former CEO and president of Vin & Spirit
- Dominic Barton – former global managing director of McKinsey & Company
- Oliver Bäte – CEO of Allianz
- Wolfgang Bernhard – Daimler board member and executive
- John Birt, Baron Birt – former director-general of the BBC (1992–2000) and special adviser to Tony Blair
- Martin Blessing – CEO of Commerzbank
- André Borschberg – founder of Solar Impulse
- Marvin Bower – Managing Director of McKinsey & Company (1950–67)
- Roelof Botha – Senior steward at Sequoia Capital
- Robert Brisco – CEO of Internet Brands
- Matt Brittin – Head of EMEA at Google
- Shona Brown – former Google executive
- Adam Cahan — Yahoo executive
- Francesco Caio – serial CEO and/or founder from Omnitel, Olivetti, Merloni, Netscalibur and Cable & Wireless plc
- Roderick Carnegie — Chairman of the Pacific Edge Group
- Humphrey Cobbold – former CEO cycling business Wiggle and current CEO of PureGym
- Ronald Cohen – co-founder and former chairman of Apax Partners
- Matt Cohler — General Partner at Benchmark Capital
- David Coleman – CEO of The College Board
- Vittorio Colao – CEO of Vodafone
- Richard Currie — former chairman of BCE Inc and Bell Canada
- Ian Davis – former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company and current chairman for Rolls-Royce Holdings
- Ron Daniel — former worldwide managing director at McKinsey & Company
- Julian Day – former CEO of Kmart and RadioShack
- Dido Harding – CEO of TalkTalk Group and Member of the House of Lords
- Henrique De Castro – former Google executive and former chief operating officer of Yahoo!
- Etienne de Villiers – former executive chairman and president of the ATP Tour, former president of Walt Disney, and former chairman of BBC Worldwide
- David Carl Edelman - CMO at Aetna
- John Elliott – Australian businessman
- Erik Engstrom – CEO of Reed Elsevier
- Carolyn Fairbairn – former BBC and ITV executive
- Diana Farrell – CEO of JPMorgan Chase Institute
- Bernard T. Ferrari – Dean of Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
- Richard N. Foster – managing partner of Investment and Advisory Services LLC
- Jane Fraser – CEO of Citigroup
- Jeff George – CEO of Sandoz International GmbH
- Mike George – president and CEO of QVC Inc
- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. – former chairman and CEO of IBM and former chairman of The Carlyle Group
- Shuman Ghosemajumder — CTO of Shape Security
- Caroline Ghosn - cofounder and CEO of Levo League
- George N. Gillett, Jr. – founder of Gillette Holdings. Former owner of the Montreal Canadiens and England's Liverpool Football Club
- Simon Glinsky – Co-founder of Match.com later Match Group
- James P. Gorman – chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
- Mario Greco – CEO of Zurich Insurance Group
- Stephen Green (banker) – chairman of HSBC
- Rajat Gupta – Managing Director of McKinsey & Company (1994–2003)
- Bob Haas – chairman of Levi Strauss & Co
- John Hagel – author and consultant
- Torstein Hagen – founder of Viking River Cruises
- Suzanne Heywood — chairperson of CNH Industrial
- Ken Hicks – CEO of Foot Locker
- Dennis F. Hightower - former President, Europe, Middle East & Africa (Paris) and President, Television & Telecommunications at Walt Disney. Former CEO, Europe Online Networks (Luxembourg)
- Kathleen Hogan - Chief People Officer at Microsoft
- Charlotte Hogg – COO of the Bank of England
- Egil Hogna — CEO of Sapa Group
- Betsy Holden – former co-CEO of Kraft Foods; later joined McKinsey as a senior advisor
- Amy Howe — current Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Ticketmaster, a Live Nation subsidiary
- Eric Janvier – co-founder, Schlumberger Business Consulting
- Hubert Joly – CEO of Best Buy and former CEO of hospitality companies
- Aditya Julka – founder of Paddle8
- Markus Kattner — former Secretary-General of FIFA
- Jon Katzenbach – Founder of Katzenbach Partners
- Thomas Kurian — CEO of Google Cloud
- Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny — British Private Equity investor
- Andrew Thomas Kearney – Founder of management consulting firm A.T. Kearney
- Susanne Klatten – Germany's richest woman; heir to the BMW fortune
- Marius Kloppers – former CEO of BHP
- Jørgen Vig Knudstorp – CEO of Lego Group
- Melanie Kreis — CFO Deutsche Post
- Anil Kumar – former Director at McKinsey & Company and co-founder of the Indian School of Business who pled guilty to insider trading
- Mark Leiter (businessman) — Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Leiter & Company
- Tom Leppert — CEO of Kaplan, Inc
- Helge Lund – CEO of BG Group and former CEO of StatoilHydro
- Alonzo L. McDonald — former president and vice chairman of the Bendix Corporation
- Aslaug Magnusdottir – founder of fashion company Tinker Tailor (brand)
- Fred Malek — former president of Marriott Hotels and Northwest Airlines
- John C. Malone – former chairman of Liberty Media; CEO and Chairman of Discovery Holding Company
- Charlie Mayfield – chairman of John Lewis Partnership 2007 -
- James Paul Manzi – chairman and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation
- James McNerney – former chairman and CEO of Boeing
- Kip Meek — former chairman of the Broadband Stakeholder Group
- Kathryn Minshew – cofounder of TheMuse.com
- Deanna M. Mulligan – CEO of Guardian Life
- Tomoko Namba – founder of mobile games developer DeNA
- Ian Narev – CEO of Commonwealth Bank
- Roberto Nicastro – head of retail at Unicredit Group
- Kenichi Ohmae – corporate strategist
- Azran Osman Rani – CEO of AirAsia X
- David Palecek — US management consultant
- Helmut Panke – former chairman and CEO of BMW
- Roger Parry – former chairman and CEO of Clear Channel International. Current chairman of YouGov
- Corrado Passera – former Italian Minister of Development and Minister of Infrastructures and ex-CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo
- Prashant Pathak – Managing Partner of ReichmannHauer Capital Partners
- Michael Patsalos-Fox — Chairman, President & CEO at Vidyo
- J. Michael Pearson – former CEO and chairman of Valeant Pharmaceuticals
- Edgar Perez – author of The Speed Traders and Knightmare on Wall Street
- Sundar Pichai – CEO of Alphabet Inc and Google
- Patrick Pichette - Former CFO of Google and Venture Capitalist
- Alessandro Profumo – former CEO of UniCredit
- Phil Purcell – former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
- Robert Reffkin – CEO and co-founder of Compass, Inc.
- Cyriac Roeding – ShopKick cofounder and CEO
- Tagg Romney - US venture capitalist
- David O. Sacks – founder of Yammer
- Sheryl Sandberg – COO of Facebook
- Peter Sands – CEO of Standard Chartered Bank
- Silvio Scaglia – founder of Fastweb
- Paolo Scaroni – CEO, Eni – ex-CEO, Enel
- Jonathan I. Schwartz – former CEO of Sun Microsystems
- Lara Setrakian – founder of Syria Deeply
- Kevin W. Sharer – former chairman and CEO of Amgen Inc.
- António Simões (executive) – Banking executive, CEO Global Private Banking, HSBC
- Jeff Skilling – former CEO of Enron
- Tad Smith – CEO of Sotheby's
- Jonathan Spector – CEO of The Conference Board
- Gerald L. Storch – CEO of Hudson Bay and former chairman and CEO of Toys "R" Us
- Stephan Sturm — CEO of Fresenius
- Fred Swaniker – entrepreneur and co-founder of the African Leadership Academy
- Tidjane Thiam – CEO of Credit Suisse and former CEO of Prudential
- Pamela Thomas-Graham – Chief talent, branding and communications officer at Credit Suisse. Formerly CEO of CNBC
- Evan Thornley – co-founder of LookSmart and CEO of Better Place
- Peter Thum – founder, Ethos Water and social entrepreneur
- Wayne Ting – CEO of Lime, former chief of staff to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
- Parit Wacharasindhu — Thai politician and social entrepreneur
- Amelia Warren Tyagi — daughter of Elizabeth Warren
- Joey Wat — CEO of Yum China
- Johanna Waterous — London-based Canadian businesswoman
- Carlos Watson – former anchor for MSNBC and founder of news site OZY
- Miles D. White – chairman and CEO of Abbott Laboratories
- Sir Robert Worcester – founder of MORI
- Peter Wuffli – former CEO of UBS AG
- Tony Xu - CEO of DoorDash
- Klaus Zumwinkel – ex-chairman of Deutsche Post
- Jack Herrick – founder of WikiHow and eHow[4]
Government
edit- Bradley M. Berkson — last United States Department of Defense director, program analysis and evaluation
- Lael Brainard – board of governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System
- Esther Brimmer – former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
- Ryan Brumberg – former U.S. Congressional candidate
- Pete Buttigieg — Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and 2020 Presidential Candidate, current Secretary of Transportation
- Mary Burke — former Wisconsin Secretary of Commerce
- Sylvia Mathews Burwell – former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; former director of the United States Office of Management and Budget
- Rohit Chopra – consumer advocate and Commissioner on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission
- Bjarne Corydon — Finance Minister of Denmark
- Tom Cotton – U.S. Senator from Arkansas
- Jim Coutts (deceased) – Canadian Prime Ministerial advisor (1963–66, 1975–81)
- Dan Debicella – Connecticut State Senator (2006-2010) and Congressional Candidate
- Isabel Dedring – Deputy Mayor for Transport, City of London
- Božidar Đelić – Serbian Minister of Economy and Finance (2001–2003), vice-president of the Government of Serbia (2007–2012)
- Oleksandr Danylyuk — former Ukrainian finance minister
- Stephen Donnelly — Fianna Fáil Member of Parliament and Irish shadow minister for health
- Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. – current president and CEO of TIAA-CREF; former vice chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System (2001–2006)
- Thomas C. Foley — US ambassador to Ireland
- Robert G. Greenhill — president of the Canadian International Development Agency
- William Hague – former foreign secretary of Britain and former leader of the Conservative party in the House of Commons
- Dennis F. Hightower - former deputy secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Wopke Hoekstra – European Commissioner for Climate Action and former Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
- Wendell Hulcher — former mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Reed Hundt – former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (1993-1997)
- Greg Hunt – Member of the Australian House of Representatives (2001–present)
- Radovan Jelašić – former governor of the National Bank of Serbia
- Bobby Jindal – Governor of the State of Louisiana (2008–2016); former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (2004–2008)
- Nancy Killefer – Assistant Secretary for Management, CFO, and COO at the United States Department of the Treasury (1997–2000)
- John D. Macomber – former president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (1989–1992)
- Jack Markell – Governor of Delaware
- David McCormick – Business executive, former U.S. Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs
- Karen Mills – former head of the Small Business Administration (SBA)
- Toshimitsu Motegi – former minister for economy, trade and industry of Japan
- Kyriakos Mitsotakis – Prime Minister of Greece (2019–present)
- Arthur Mutambara – Zimbabwean politician; former head of the Movement for Democratic Change
- Naheed Nenshi – Mayor of Calgary (2010–present)
- Greg Orman – former U.S. Senate candidate from Kansas
- Peter Orszag – economist, Barack Obama's OMB director designate, former CBO director, formerly of the Brookings Institution
- Joris Poort — US engineer
- Susan E. Rice – American diplomat; former U.S. National Security Council Advisor and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Jayant Sinha – former finance minister for India and former Managing Director at Omidyar Network
- Van Taylor – former U.S. Congressional candidate and current Texas state senator.
- Eric Wiebes – State Secretary of Finance (2014–2017) and Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (2017–2021) of the Netherlands
- Einat Wilf — Israeli politician
- Pieter Winsemius – former Dutch Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (1982–1986, 2006–2007)
- Nadiem Makarim – Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia (2019–Present)
Academics
edit- Mahmoud Reza Banki – Iranian scientist
- Christopher A. Bartlett – author, academic and professor emeritus at Harvard Business School
- Scott C. Beardsley – Dean, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia
- Rufus Black – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania
- James C. Collins – academic, author Good to Great
- Charles R. Conn — former warden and global CEO of Rhodes House and the Rhodes Trust
- Angela Duckworth — A psychologist who studied and wrote about grit[5]
- Bernard T. Ferrari – Dean, Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
- Gerd Hahn — German economist
- Dennis F. Hightower - former Professor of Management at Harvard Business School
- Kenneth E. Iverson — Canadian computer scientist
- Martin Roll — strategy author
- Matthew C. Weinzierl - professor at Harvard Business School
Other
edit- Paul Antony – chief medical officer of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
- Martin Neil Baily – Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution
- David Bennett – former CEO of Monitor (NHS)
- Victor Cheng – author, blogger
- David Churbuck - blogger; partner Sitrick And Company
- Chelsea Clinton – Vice Chairman, Clinton Foundation, daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Howard Davies – Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland; former director of the London School of Economics and former chairman of the British Financial Services Authority
- Bill Drayton – founder and CEO of Ashoka
- Aditya Tyagi – co-founder, i-Saksham, an organisation building young women as leaders of change
- Anand Giridharadas – author
- Chris Goodall – environmental author, speaker and consultant, as well as Green Party parliamentary candidate
- Robert C. Gay — senior member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Mohsin Hamid – author
- Tom Hayhoe – healthcare director, former politician, and offshore racing sailor
- Fred Hilmer – former CEO of Fairfax Media and former president and vice chancellor of University of South Wales
- Lisa Joy — American screenwriter, director and producer and the co-creator of Westworld
- Kazuyo Katsuma — Japanese author
- Laura Kits - Dutch singer and songwriter and activist
- Yul Kwon – business, law, government and media background; winner of reality TV show Survivor: Cook Islands in 2006
- Phil Lapsley – electrical engineer, author and entrepreneur
- Georgia Lee – filmmaker
- Jeff Luhnow – General Manager of the Houston Astros
- Dina Nayeri — Iranian American novelist
- Thomas J. Peters – business author and speaker
- Chris Philp – cofounder of Clearstone and member of British Parliament for Croydon South
- Alejandro Plaz – founder of Súmate
- Stuart Shilson — Assistant Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II in the Royal Household
- Josh Singer — American screenwriter and producer
- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell – British businessperson, academic and technocrat; formerly served as chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority and the UK Financial Policy Committee
- James Twining – former investment banker, McKinsey consultant and entrepreneur; current thriller writer
- Luis Ubiñas – former president of the Ford Foundation
- Kieran West — retired English rower and Olympic champion
- Brett Wigdortz – founder of the charity Teach First
- Jason Wright – team president of the Washington Football Team[6]
- Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau – Prince of the Dutch Royal family
- Vienna Teng – singer, songwriter
- Eric Edstrom — whistleblower,[7] author
- Garrison Lovely — whistleblower,[7] journalist
References
edit- ^ Stein, Wendy J. (2006) [1994]. "McKinsey & Company, Inc.". In Kepos, Paula; Derdak, Thomas (eds.). International Directory of Company Histories, Volume 9. Chicago: St. James Press. p. 344. ISBN 978-1-55862-324-8. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ McDonald, Duff (2013). The Firm. London: Oneworld Publications. ISBN 978-1-78074-392-9. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "About the McKinsey Alumni Program | McKinsey & Company".
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackherrick [self-published source]
- ^ "Angela Duckworth". Angela Duckworth. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
- ^ "Washington Football Team Appoints Jason Wright as President". WashingtonFootball.com. August 17, 2020. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
- ^ a b Pulling back the veil of secrecy surrounding McKinsey, retrieved 2024-01-30