In 2019, Current Affairs published an anonymously written expose penned by a former employee of the world’s most famous and prestigious management consulting firm. “I came into my job as a McKinsey consultant hoping to change the world from the inside, believing that the best way to make progress is through influencing those who control the levers of power,” wrote its author. “[But] instead of being a force for good, I found myself party to the most damaging forces affecting the world: the resurgence of authoritarianism and the continued creep of markets into all parts of life.”
Though famously secretive about its work, McKinsey & Company would soon find its way into headlines courtesy of then South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, who quickly discovered that his association with the company was more of a liability than an asset given its work for the likes of Saudi Arabia and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Just recently, the author of 2019’s Current Affairs essay has begun to speak publicly about his work and decision to become a whistleblower. Garrison Lovely, who was recruited by the firm in his early twenties, last month published a lengthy cover story in the Nation entitled “Confessions of a McKinsey Consultant.” In the following interview, Lovely talks to Jacobin’s Luke Savage about his Nation piece, his work with McKinsey, and the inner workings of the secretive but influential business of management consulting.
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