[4] He failed to secure a second term in that position in early 2021, becoming the first global managing partner since 1976 not to win such an election.

[1] His father, Walter Sneader, was a chemistry professor at the University of Strathclyde; his mother, Myrna, was a teacher in a Jewish nursery school.

[11] Sneader was also in charge in McKinsey during controversies around their work with Saudi Arabia and Russia, the former after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

McKinsey paid $619m to settle claims brought by 50 US states, five territories and the District of Columbia over its opioid work.

[12] The settlements come after lawsuits unearthed a trove of documents showing how McKinsey worked to drive sales of Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin painkiller amid an opioid crisis in the United States that has contributed to the deaths of more than 450,000 people over the past two decades.