Lenny Mendonca

Lenny Mendonca is a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s US state and local public sector consulting practice and also oversaw their knowledge development, chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the firm’s communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its board of directors). He retired from McKinsey in 2014. Previously he was the chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom and chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. Currently he is vice-chair of Western Governors University, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute, and also the founding chair of the Coastside News Group (Half Moon Bay Review and Pacifica Tribune). He was the chair of Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, co-founder and chair of Fusecorps, the vice-chair of Common Cause and the Stanford GSB Advisory Council, and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He served on the board of trustees for of UC Merced, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, California Competes, The Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club, National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, Measures for Justice, The Guardian.org, Junior Statesmen of America, and the advisory boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, The CA Community College Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California’s Statewide Leadership Council. He currently serves on PPIC’s Economic Policy Center Advisory Council. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard.