Sven Smit is the Chairman and Director of McKinsey Global Institute, and Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co.
Sven is the co-chair of the McKinsey Global Institute and has led McKinsey's Western European region after having led the global Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice for 7 years. He is a member of the McKinsey Shareholder Council and the McKinsey Global Institute Council. Sven works with many leading companies to develop strategies for growth. His experience includes analyzing the success factors required for business growth, examining the way megatrends influence it, and defining the lessons of diversified growth, building on the ideas in The Granularity of Growth and Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick, two books he coauthored.
In addition, Sven participates in the development of McKinsey's perspective on the economy. By building and applying macro scenarios, he helps to develop McKinsey's point of view on core issues (such as economic volatility, inflation, and uncertainty) and defines ways to help clients navigate the problems.
Sven serves all industries and has the deepest experience in telecommunications, high tech, and consumer. He has coauthored MGI reports and articles on topics such as productivity and growth, urbanization, labor markets and the future of work, Europe's economic outlook, and emerging markets, as well as on our work on future trends in the world "toward a new narrative of progress."
Sven has an M.Sc. (Eng.) from Technische Universiteit Delft and an MBA from INSEAD.
Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat The Odds