Dr. Fraser Thompson

Leader, McKinsey Global Institute

Dr. Fraser Thompson is a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey’s business and economics research arm, based in Singapore. Thompson leads MGI’s work on natural resources, including issues such as resource productivity and economic development in resource-rich countries. Thompson has authored numerous articles in leading business and academic publications. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on economic development and natural resource issues.

Thompson joined the Middle East office of McKinsey in 2006, before moving in 2008 to London, where he was an engagement manager. As a consultant, he served extractive companies and resource-rich governments on a range of regulatory and economic development issues. Prior to joining McKinsey, Thompson worked as a consultant for The World Bank in the United States and the United Kingdom, and as a lecturer at Oxford University in the areas of Development Economics, International Trade and Finance, Microeconomics and Industrial Organization. Thompson received a Doctorate and Masters in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He also has undergraduate degrees from Melbourne University (Australia) and Butler University (United States) in Commerce and Arts, majoring in Finance, Economics and Mandarin Chinese.