The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), founded in 1990, is McKinsey & Company's economics research arm. Its primary purpose is to undertake original research and develop substantive points of view on critical economic issues facing businesses and governments around the world. MGI's research is funded by the partners of McKinsey and not commissioned by any business, government, or other institution.
We seek to help business leaders and policy makers understand the evolution of the global economy, improve performance and competitiveness, and provide a fact base that contributes to decision making on critical management and policy issues.
MGI's research is a unique combination of two disciplines: economics and management. By integrating these two perspectives, MGI is able to gain insights into the microeconomic underpinnings of the broad trends shaping the global economy.
One hallmark of our research is a deep microeconomic analysis at the sector level. This enables us to go beyond the broad macroeconomic indicators to examine the actual drivers of performance. We have applied this approach extensively across many industrialized and developing countries around the world across a large number of industry sectors.
Our current research agenda builds on this unique micro-to-macro approach to derive perspectives that help inform the global forces shaping business and society, from demography and technology to consumer preferences and regulation. We seek to understand these forces from a supply perspective that explores the integration of product, labor, capital, and resource markets, and from the demand perspective of households and consumers.
Academic Advisers
The merger of disciplines at the heart of our approach is reflected in the research process. To draw from the best economic thinking, our research teams work with a number of leading economists, including Nobel laureates, who serve as McKinsey Global Institute academic advisers. Read more
MGI Fellows
Each research project includes a team of McKinsey consultants from around the world and is supported by the firm's network of knowledge-management professionals. Under MGI's director Diana Farrell, they serve 6- to 12-month assignments and then return to client work.
Diana Farrell Diana Farrell, director of MGI, presents an overview of the institute's mission and approach. Read more
