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Susan Lund is a Senior Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute and contributes to MGI's research and publications. Most recently, she led research teams in assessing the performance of China’s and India’s financial systems, and is currently assessing global capital flows. Her prior research looked at the globalization of capital markets and its implications for emerging markets, and the origins of financial crises.
Ms. Lund joined McKinsey as a consultant in 1996 in the Washington, DC office. She served a variety of clients in investment banking, financial services, and international financial institutions on issues involving strategy, organization, and product development. She became a member of the Board of Editors at The McKinsey Quarterly in 2000, where she wrote numerous journal articles and opinion pieces for leading international publications on economics and public policy.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Lund was a Fulbright Fellow, where she led a year-long research project on microcredit in a rural farming community in the Philippines. She has also worked as an economist at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Yunnan, China, and was an analyst at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington DC. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in a remote mountain community in the Philippines, where she organized a farmer's cooperative and helped it start several small business enterprises.
Ms. Lund earned a Ph.D. in international economics from Stanford University. Prior to that, she graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Foreign Affairs and the Journal of Economic Development. | 