A spotlight on boards’ response to the new risk environment: How boards are changing the way they think about risk in strategic decision making

Author's Biography

Celia Huber is a Senior Partner in McKinsey’s Silicon Valley office and leads its board services in North America.

Michael May has been a professor of computer sciences and facility management at the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Berlin since 1994. Before assuming his current position he was head of the FM research department at the IIEF Institute in Berlin and worked for the German Ministry of Research and Technology. He earned his PhD in mathematics in 1981 and his postdoctoral Habilitation in information technology in 1990 at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. His current research is related to FM knowledge management, gamebased learning, facility layout automation, IT integration, CAFM/IWMS, BIM, augmented reality and sustainability. He is the editor and author of several books including The Facility Manager’s Guide to Information Technology. He is a board member of the German Facility Management Association (GEFMA) and head of GEFMA’s IT (CAFM) work group. He represents GEFMA at the international level, eg at EuroFM and IFMA.

Olivia White is a Partner in McKinsey’s San Francisco office. She advises financial institutions on issues across strategy, organisation, risk management and operations. Olivia has helped multiple institutions transform their enterprise-wide approach to risk management, drawing on deep expertise in risk appetite, identification, effectiveness and efficiency; organisation and talent; culture and other areas. Olivia has also worked extensively on financial inclusion and broader economic development, with a primary focus in emerging markets. She holds a PhD in physics from Harvard, an MSc in mathematics from Oxford University where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA in physics and mathematics from Stanford University.