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Director with McKinsey & Company
Director, McKinsey Global Institute
Co-Chair, Urban China Initiative
Dr. Jonathan Woetzel is a Director with McKinsey & Company based in Shanghai. In his 30 years with the Firm, Jonathan has advised clients in a range of industries – including energy, materials, technology and industrial – helping transform local companies into global leaders, and developing policy recommendations for government. Dr. Woetzel has led McKinsey’s Asia Energy and Materials practice, the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey’s macroeconomic research institute, in Asia, and its Corporate Finance practice in China. He led the establishment of McKinsey’s China practice in the 1990s including managing its Shanghai location. He is the Co-Chair of the Urban China Initiative, a research collaboration with Columbia and Tsinghua University. Dr. Woetzel has written five books on China including Capitalist China: Strategies for a Revolutionized Economy (Wiley & Sons, 2004), co-authored with Jimmy Hexter Operation China: From Strategy to Execution (Harvard Business Press, 2008) and co-authored with Jeffrey Towson The 1 Hour China and with James Manyika and Richard Dobbs No Ordinary Disruption (Public Affairs, 2015). He currently has 3 Amazon international business bestsellers. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Southern California, where his work focused on China’s political economy. He is an honorary lecturer at Jiao Tong University Antai Business School, Peking University Guanghua Business School and China Europe International Business School. Dr. Woetzel, a U.S. citizen, is proficient in Mandarin, Spanish, and German. He lives in Shanghai, is married and has two children.