Sven Smit is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and chair of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey's business and economics research arm, and a member of the McKinsey Board of Directors.
He leads MGI research on global economic trends and topics such as productivity and growth, urbanization, innovation and technology, labor markets and the future of work, emerging markets, and Europe's economic outlook. Recent MGI reports he coauthored include: The new social contract in the 21st century; Prioritizing Health: a prescription for prosperity; The future of work in Europe; Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains.
He helps McKinsey develop the firm’s point of view on core issues such as economic volatility, inflation, and uncertainty, and defines ways to help clients navigate the problems. As a leader of McKinsey’s global strategy & corporate finance practice, Sven works with leading companies to develop strategies for growth, serving all industries.
Sven is co-author of two business books, Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick (2018), and The Granularity of Growth (2008) and he is regular speaker at conferences around the world.
He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD.
When it comes to lifting people out of poverty, how do we define minimum acceptable living standards? For years, poverty has been measured against the World Bank’s $2.15 per day benchmark...
在过去二十年间，全球资产负债表（全球经济中所有资产和负债的总和，因此可能是全球价值储存的最佳衡量标准）不断扩大。
For two decades, the global balance sheet – the sum of all the assets and liabilities in the global economy and therefore probably the best measurement of the global store of value – expa...
Ours is an interdependent world. It is connected by global flows of goods, services, capital, people, data and ideas, but over the past three years, major disruptions to trade and supply ...
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