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Senior Partner - Global Chief Risk Officer

Finance

"The real estate industry must equip itself with the technologies necessary for rapid and informed decision-making"

Business Immo: What was the iread mission it set itself when it was created?  Jean-François Grazi: The observation we made is that the real estate industry (...)

Finance

Venture capitalists invest $1bn in global ConTech startups in 1H

Venture capitalists invested a record $1.05bn in global construction technology (ConTech) startups in the first half of 2018, reports adviser JLL - up nearly (...)

Housing

Housing affordability: A supply-side tool kit for cities

Global housing stock has not expanded quickly enough to keep up with a surge in demand, but cities can focus on three supply-side solutions (...)

Investment

The new dynamics of financial globalization

A decade after the beginning of the global financial crisis, the fallout continues to reshape the financial system. Gross cross-border capital flows are 65 percent (...)

Innovation

China’s digital economy: A leading global force

China is already more digitized than many observers appreciate. China is one of the world’s largest investors and adopters of digital technologies, and is (...)

Innovation

Artificial intelligence : the next digital frontier?

In this independent discussion paper, we examine investment in artificial intelligence (AI), describe how it is being deployed by companies that have started to (...)

HR / Working space

The power of parity: Advancing women’s equality in Canada

Over the past decade, McKinsey has made a sustained commitment to researching and writing about gender and diversity. Since 2007, McKinsey’s Women Matter research (...)

HR / Working space

Technology, jobs, and the future of work

The world of work is in a state of flux, which is causing considerable anxiety—and with good reason. There is growing polarization of labor-market (...)

Investment

European Business : Overcoming uncertainty, strengthening recovery

The European economy is on the road to recovery and business confidence has picked up after one of the toughest decades in the postwar (...)

Innovation

Smartening up with Artificial Intelligence (AI) - What’s in it for Germany and its Industrial Sector?

Self-learning machines are the essence of artificial intelligence (AI). While concepts already date back more than 50 years, only recently have technological advances enabled (...)

Innovation

Artificial intelligence: Implications for China

Artificial intelligence, or the idea that computer systems can perform functions typically associated with the human mind, has gone from futuristic speculation to present-day (...)

Housing

A tool kit to close California's housing gap : 3.5 million homes by 2025

As California real estate prices rise three times faster than household incomes, more than 50% of the state’s households cannot afford the cost of (...)

HR / Working space

Independent work: Choice, necessity, and the gig economy

A full-time job with one employer has been considered the norm for decades, but increasingly, this fails to capture how a large share of (...)

Investment

China's choice : Capturing the $5 trillion productivity

Where is China’s economy heading? After many years of apparently inexorable rapid growth and economic development, it is rare for such a question to (...)

Territories

Bridging global infrastructure gaps

Today the world invests some $2.5 trillion a year in the transportation, power, water, and telecom systems on which businesses and populations depend. Yet this (...)

Investment

Diminishing returns : why investors may need to lower their expectations ?

Buoyed by exceptional economic and business conditions, returns on US and Western European equities and bonds during the past 30 years were considerably higher (...)

Retail

Urban World : The Global consumers to watch

As world population growth slows, global consumption growth—the demand that fuels much of the world’s economic expansion—will depend heavily on how much each individual (...)

Investment

Southeast Asia at the crossroads: Three paths to prosperity

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a coalition of ten diverse nations: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, (...)

Investment

Urban world: The shifting global business landscape

Urbanization and industrialization continue to reshape the world’s economic order, creating a global consuming class that will be four billion strong by 2025. Previous (...)

Investment

Urban world : Mapping the economic power of cities

The world is in the throes of a sweeping population shift from the countryside to the city. The global urban population is growing by (...)

Retail

Urban world : Cities and the rise of the consuming class

The urbanization of the world continues apace and is one bright spot in an otherwise challenging global economic environment. The shift in economic balance (...)

Investment

Urban America: US cities in the global economy

If the 21st century is the century of cities, as some observers characterize it, urban America begins the millennium in a strong position. Large (...)