Adam Schwarz

BA (Duke), MBA (Col)

Adam Schwarz is a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute and contributes to MGI's research in Asia. Previously he was the director of Communications for McKinsey Asia. Schwarz is a regional specialist, with more than 15 years working in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
Schwarz, who joined McKinsey in 2001, is currently leading a team of consultants assisting the Indonesian President in designing and structuring a new agency to coordinate and manage reconstruction activities in Aceh Province, which was devastated by a tsunami on 26 December 2004, taking more than 120,000 lives. He has also served several of McKinsey's public-sector clients in Southeast Asia on issues such as economic policy, organizational change, and stakeholder analysis.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Schwarz ran his own consulting firm named Nusantara Consulting, based in Washington, D.C. His firm provided political, economic, and business risk analysis on Southeast Asian countries and corporations to private, public-sector, and multinational clients.
For the 10 years leading up to early 1997, Schwarz was a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, a Dow Jones publication, in multiple Asian countries. His writing covered a broad range of business, financial, political, and economic issues. In the early 1990s, Schwarz wrote the highly acclaimed study on contemporary Indonesia, A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia's Search for Stability. He has also written extensively on ASEAN issues.
Schwarz graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics (1983). He holds an M.B.A. degree in International Business from Columbia University (1987), where he was awarded a University Fellowship for Professional Achievement. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States.

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