Richard Dobbs is a director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey\'s business and economics research arm, and a director (senior partner) of McKinsey, based in London.

Richard has served clients around the world in a variety of industries, ranging from high tech and financial services to petroleum, utilities, and the public sector. At MGI he has led research and published reports on global economic trends, including urbanization, resource markets, capital markets, obesity, and productivity and growth.

From 2004 to 2009, Richard co-led McKinsey’s Corporate Finance Practice, where he led research focused on performance management and measurement, mergers and acquisitions, valuation, capital markets strategy, and utility regulation. He was a co-author of Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance.

Richard has a BA in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford and an MBA from Stanford where he was a Fulbright Scholar.