Bruce Simpson is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey on ESG/Purpose, helping companies deliver positive societal impact, and long term shareholder benefits, through their core business. He retired from McKinsey as a Senior Partner in early 2021 after 33 years delivering transformations across strategy, operations and organisation topics, and several global leadership roles. Most recently He led McKinsey’s ESG/Purpose practice globally, serving clients across multiple sectors. As a Senior Advisor to McKinsey he continues to coach Boards and CEO’s worldwide to calibrate and prioritize ESG risks and opportunities, engage stakeholders, develop a credible, integrated narrative, and deliver measurable impact. He is also a Senior Advisor to two distinctive, fast growing ESG companies: Tomorrow.io a weather intelligence company, and Quadfi, a fintech, focused on financial lending to underserved communities. He continues to share ideas on how best to execute stakeholder capitalism, through 30+ articles, podcasts and speeches.

He has an MA and LLM from Cambridge University, and an MBA/MA in International Studies from Wharton, and the Lauder Institute at U. Penn. His parents are arctic explorers. Time spent living with indigenous cultures in the arctic developed his early passion for ESG