Les Silverman Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company

Mr. Silverman is a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, having retired from the international consulting firm in 2005. Silverman joined McKinsey in 1982 to help build the firm's energy practice, and he was head of the global Electric Power and Natural Gas Practice throughout the 1990s. Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr. Silverman served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation at the US Department of Energy from 1980 to 1981. He also served as Director of Policy Analysis at the US Department of the Interior from 1978 to 1980. He holds a Ph.D. in economics, a Masters degree in business, and an undergraduate degree in industrial administration-all from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the board of Pepco Holdings, Inc., a public utility operating in the District of Columbia and four states, and Logos Energy, a start-up in the alternative energy business. Mr. Silverman is an adjunct lecturer at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and has co-authored more than 35 published articles (including pieces in the Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, The McKinsey Quarterly, Leader to Leader, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Electricity Journal, and Public Utilities Fortnightly) and professional papers in the fields of energy, economics, and nonprofit management.

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