Author: Gregory Wilson

DOMINIC BARTON is a director with Mc Kinsey & Company andmanaging partner of the Firm”s Korea practice. He also is a leaderin the Firm”s financial institutions practice. Barton has advisedthe Korean Financial Supervisory Commission on restructuring theirbanking system as well as strategized with the Monetary Authorityof Singapore. He led a major Mc Kinsey study on how to transformcompanies into sustainably high performers and has led numerousstudies for private and public sector clients in the financialsector. He holds an M. Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA in economics from the University of British Columbia. ROBERTO NEWELL is a former director at Mc Kinsey & Company wherehe led projects for governments and private sector clients infinancial crisis. Dr. Newell has served clients immersed infinancial crises throughout the Americas, including Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela. Heholds a BA and MA from the Universidad de las Americas in Mexicoand a Ph D in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. AMexican citizen, he is currently CEO of FESSA (Fondo de las Empresas Expropiadas del Sector Azucarero), a Mexican governmententity charged with turning around and privatizing twenty-sevenfailed sugar mills. With Luis Rubio Frieberg, Newell wrote anaward-winning book on Mexico”s financial crisis of the 1980s, entitled Mexico”s Dilemma: The Political Origins of Economic Crisis. GREGORY WILSON is a principal in Mc Kinsey & Company”s Washington, D.C. office, specializing in strategic issues thataffect private and public sector clients in the financial servicesindustry. Wilson has worked on financial sector restructuringaround the world, including many recent crisis countries in Asiaand South America, and has conducted numerous client studies onpolicy, strategic, regulatory, and structural issues. He holds a BAin history, and politics and government from Ohio Wesleyan University. From 1974-1976 he attended the Fletcher School of Lawand Diplomacy where he studied international business and law.Prior to joining Mc Kinsey, Wilson served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Treasury Department during the U.S. savings and loan crisis.