McKinsey & Company promotes Anke Raufuss to senior partner in Sydney
Global strategy consultancy McKinsey & Company has elevated its Asia Corporate and Investment Banking segment leader and risk specialist Anke Raufuss to senior partner in Sydney.
Anke Raufuss has been with McKinsey & Company for just shy of two decades, originally joining the consultancy in Germany in 2007 before later spending time with the firm in the United Kingdom ahead of transferring to Australia and being made a partner.
In addition to her lead banking sector role for Asia, Raufuss also heads McKinsey’s Risk & Resilience practice in Australia and New Zealand, as well as its work in non-financial and market risk at the global level.
A mathematics doctorate holder from Marburg University, her move into financial sector advisory with McKinsey in Frankfurt would prove something of a baptism of fire, occurring as it did at the dawn of the global financial crisis. That period however would come to define much of her career to follow, particularly as to her focus on supporting organisations in building resilience.
“It was such an intense time,” Raufuss, described as being predisposed to love numbers, said of her challenging career start, adding though that she also learned something more about herself; “I loved fixing things. In some ways, I loved being a crisis manager.”
That passion and expertise would also see Raufuss “follow the crises” to various international locations, including time spent with McKinsey in the global financial hubs of London, Singapore and New York. Now based in Sydney, she becomes the local firm’s twelfth senior partner, according to the firm’s local website.
In her client work, Raufuss advises boards and CEOs of leading financial institutions and corporates on large-scale risk transformations, including as to non-financial risks, covering a range areas such as culture, climate strategies, regulatory compliance, Three Lines of Defense (3LoD) models, enterprise risk management, financial crime, AI delivery, and market and trading risk.
Speaking at the most recent RiskMinds conference in London, which hosted more than 1,300 senior industry professionals from all over the world, Raufuss noted that no given framework can prevent every disruption due to the scale and intensity of contemporary threats – something the world is currently learning once again – but that strong and prepared leaders can “withstand, recover, and emerge even stronger.”
Internally, Raufuss leads McKinsey’s ‘All In’ initiative in Australia, helping to drive gender diversity and inclusion, and supports the firm’s annual ‘Next Generation Women Leaders Asia Pacific’ professional development and networking event, as well as being a regular speaker at the global risk industry’s major international gatherings.
