William Lewis

EDUCATION

B.S. with Honors, Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1963

Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, 1966

EXPERIENCE

2001-present         Director Emeritus, McKinsey Global Institute, Washington, D.C.

1990-2001         Director, McKinsey Global Institute, Washington, D.C.

1982-2001         Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc., Washington, D.C.

1981-1982         President, District Heat & Power, Inc., Washington, D.C.

1981-                Acting United States Secretary of Energy

1979-1981         Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and Evaluation, Washington, D.C.

1977-1979         Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.

• Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Program Analysis and Evaluation

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Strategic Programs, Program Analysis and Evaluation

1973-1977         World Bank, Washington, D.C.

• Senior Financial Analyst, Industrial Development and Finance Division, Eastern Africa Region

• Senior Planning Officer, Programming and Budgeting Department

1971-1973         Director, Office of Analytical Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1969-1971            Associate Provost for Resource Planning and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

1966-1969         Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, Washington, D.C.

• Director, NATO and General Purpose Force Analysis Division

• Director, Strategic Concepts, Command and Control Division

• Staff Member, Strategic Retaliatory Division

• Staff Member, NATO Division

ARTICLES

•         "Wick's Theorem and Linked Cluster Expansion for Heisenberg Ferromagnet" (with R.B. Stinchcombe) 1967, Proceedings of the Physical Society 92, 1002-9

•         "Thermodynamic Behavior of Heisenberg Ferromagnet" (with R. B. Stinchcombe) 1967, Proceedings of the Physical Society 92, 1010-23

•         "Budgeting and Resource Allocation at Princeton University" (with Benacerraf, Bowen, et al) 1972, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

•         United States National Academy of Sciences:

Committee on Competitiveness of the U.S. Materials Industry, 1989-90

Committee on Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming, 1990

•         "A New Mission for Corporate Technology" (with L.H. Linden) Summer 1990, Sloan Management Review

•         “Free Markets and the Prosperity Gap” 1991 Number 4, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         "Why Globalization Must Prevail," 1992 Number 2, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         "Service Sector Productivity and International Competitiveness," 1992 Number 2, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         "A "Win-Win" Economic Policy Toward Japan," 1992 Number 4, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “The Secret to Competitiveness – Competition,” 1993 Number 3, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Latin American Productivity,” 1994 Number 2, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Why Employment Performance Differs,” 1994 Number 4, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Sweden:  The Enemy is Within,” 1995 Number 4, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “What Ails Australia?,” 1996 Number 1, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Capital Productivity:  Why the U.S. Leads and Why it Matters,” 1996 Number 3, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “The Productivity of Health Care,” 1996 Number 4, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Germany & France:  Confronting the Cost of Social Policies,” 1997 Number 2, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Boosting Dutch Economic Performance,” 1997 Number 4, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “The Roots of Korea’s Crisis,” 1998 Number 2, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Will Brazil Seize its Future?” 1998 Number 3, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Why is labor productivity in the United Kingdom so low?” 1998 Number 4, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Reflections on Russia,” 2000 Number 1, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Sustaining Poland’s hard-won prosperity,” 2000 Number 2, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “Reviving Japan’s Economy,” 2000 Number 4, The McKinsey Quarterly

•         “India—From emerging to surging,” 2001 Number 4, The McKinsey Quarterly

• “What’s right with the US economy,” 2002 Number 1, The McKinsey Quarterly

BOOKS

The Power of Productivity. The University of Chicago Press, 2004

BOARDS

National Bureau of Economic Research, Committee for Economic Development, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Santa Lucia Preserve Company, Santa Lucia Conservancy

HONORS AND AWARDS

Rhodes Scholar; Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award (1979); Department of Energy Distinguished Service Award (1981); Committee for Economic Development Trustee Leadership Award; Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Pi Sigma, Captain Virginia Tech Tennis Team and New College, Oxford Tennis Team.