Vivian Hunt


Dame Vivian Yvonne Hunt is the managing partner for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in the United Kingdom and Ireland and Chair of charity Teach First. She has been named as one of the ten most influential black people in Britain by the Powerlist Foundation, and one of the 30 most influential people in the City of London by The Financial Times. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth's 2018 New Year Honours for "services to the economy and to women in business".

Early life and education

Vivian Hunt was born in July 1967, and holds dual British and American citizenship. She graduated from Harvard College after which she joined the Peace Corps for whom she worked in Senegal as a midwife and primary care worker for over two years before studying for an MBA with Harvard Business School.

Career

Hunt is the managing partner for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in the United Kingdom and Ireland. As of January 2018, she had been with McKinsey for 24 years and, before becoming managing partner, had been in charge of the company's Pharmaceutical and Medical Products division in the EMEA region for 8 years. She is McKinsey's lead speaker on diversity issues and chair of Business in the Community. She has been named as one of the ten most influential black people in Britain by the Powerlist Foundation, and one of the 30 most influential people in the City of London by The Financial Times.
In January 2018, she was criticised by The Times when it was revealed that McKinsey & Company paid its women employees salaries that were 24% less than male employees and bonuses that were 76% lower than men despite Hunt having received her DBE for services to women in business.
In November 2019, she was appointed as the Chair of education charity Teach First, taking over from Paul Drechsler CBE.

Honours

Hunt was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth's 2018 New Year Honours for "services to the economy and to women in business". She has honorary doctorates in law from the University of Warwick and the University of York.