Meet the partners behind our best 2024 insights on resilience

In a rapidly evolving world, resilience in the face of uncertainty remains as important as ever. Meet some of McKinsey's impact partners and explore their top insights of the year on risk, sustainability, productivity, and more. Then turn hindsight into foresight by diving into "Meet the moment," our interactive year-in-review experience.

Ida Kristensen

Ida is the global co-convener and North American lead for the Risk & Resilience Practice, as well as the lead for our Cybersecurity Practice. She has helped clients design and implement an enterprise risk-management function, led our work supporting a multiyear comprehensive capital-analysis and review program at a top US bank, and worked with clients to redesign operational risk and compliance functions to meet heightened regulatory expectations.

Featured article: Implementing generative AI with speed and safety

Humayun Tai 

Humayun is the global co-leader of McKinsey’s Global Energy & Materials and Electric Power & Natural Gas practices. He is also a leader in the clean tech area of our Sustainability Practice. Humayun is a regular panelist and participant in key industry events, including Gridweek, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, GridCom, and senior industry roundtables.

Featured article: Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition

Massimo Giordano 

Massimo is the managing partner for Europe and a senior partner of the firm. He previously led McKinsey’s Mediterranean office and also led the Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Massimo advises major institutions and leading companies on a broad range of issues, including strategy, growth, mergers, restructuring, advanced analytics, and finance-related programs.

Featured article: Investment: Taking the pulse of European competitiveness

Olivia White 

Olivia is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and a director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the firm’s business and economics research arm. She advises leading financial institutions and other global firms on a wide range of issues across strategy, growth, and risk and resilience. Olivia’s research is regularly profiled in leading news outlets around the world. In addition to her publishing efforts, Olivia speaks regularly at leading global conferences and industry events.

Featured article: America’s small businesses: Time to think big

Shubham Singhal 

Shubham co-leads McKinsey’s work on helping leading institutions navigate and reorient to the new realities of the shifting geopolitical landscape. He leads McKinsey’s thinking and research on the future of healthcare. His expertise has been key in defining the structural and performance implications of this transformation for payers, providers, pharmacy value chain players, and healthcare services and technology organizations.

Featured article: A proactive approach to navigating geopolitics is essential to thrive

Sven Smit 

Sven is a senior partner at McKinsey and the chair of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), our business-and-economics research division, and also chairs our insights and ecosystems work. He leads research and authors MGI reports on global economic trends and topics such as productivity and growth, urbanization, innovation and technology, labor markets, the future of work, emerging markets, and Europe's economic outlook. He helps develop the firm’s point of view on core issues such as economic volatility, inflation, and uncertainty, and defines ways to help clients navigate problems.

Featured article: Investing in productivity growth