Eric Lamarre is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company, and was a Senior Partner at McKinsey for 30 years, until his retirement in November 2024. Mr. Lamarre has extensively advised Fortune 500 companies on their most significant business priorities, including AI, digital transformation, productivity improvements, risk management and merger integrations. He served on McKinsey’s key governance committees, including McKinsey’s global board of directors, and its Technology and Knowledge committee. He also served as the Chair of McKinsey’s global Acquisition Committee, overseeing several acquisitions per year. He previously led McKinsey Digital in North America, one of McKinsey’s largest operating units with 2,000+ professionals. Mr. Lamarre holds an engineering degree from McGill University, a Ph. D. in engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Collège des ingénieurs (Paris). He is the 2023 recipient of the Gluck Lifetime Award, McKinsey’s most prestigious innovation award conferred yearly to one McKinsey partner for his/her exceptional lifetime contributions to developing client service innovations and building new firm capabilities. He authored over 30+ business and scientific publications, including the best-selling book Rewired: Outcompeting in the age of digital and AI (2023). He currently sits on the board of directors of Coveo Solutions Inc., a software publicly-listed company that provides an AI-powered enterprise search and personalization platform.