39th Annual Meeting

William W. Lewis
 

WILLIAM W. LEWIS is director emeritus at McKinsey Global Institute. He recently retired as a senior partner in McKinsey & Co. Inc. after 20 years with the firm. His responsibilities included being the founding director of the McKinsey Global Institute. Before joining McKinsey, he held several policy-making positions in the US government, including acting secretary of energy and principal deputy assistant secretary of defense. Earlier he served as associate provost at Princeton University and as a senior financial officer at the World Bank. He is a member of the boards of the National Bureau of Economic Research; the Committee for Economic Development; the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Prague; and Santa Lucia Conservancy. He has written the book The Power of Productivity. He holds a doctoral degree in theoretical physics from Oxford University, and a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA, where he was a Rhodes scholar.