Letter to Tunde Olanrewaju, Managing Partner, UK, Ireland and Israel | McKinsey & Company Inc.
“For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Mark 8:36
For the public record I’m sharing the message I sent to Tunde Olanrewaju, Managing Partner, UK, Ireland and Israel at McKinsey & Company Inc.
McKinsey ran the entire COVID response in Quebec on behalf of the Canadian government in a deeply inappropriate manner that saw them buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), training personnel, hiring orderlies to work in care homes, and even issuing official government communications.
This fusion of corporate and state power is the literal definition of fascism.
In addition to this, Quebec government officials inexplicably agreed to a contractual clause absolving McKinsey of the need to divulge potential conflicts of interest at the same time that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the first company to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to market, was one of their largest clients.
This comes on the back of a series of high-profile scandals for McKinsey, including a $573m fine for its role in ‘turbo-charging’ the US opioid epidemic on behalf of Purdue Pharmaceutical. Personally, I can’t understand why this incident alone didn’t bring McKinsey down.
The below message and additional documents, including a copy of my letter to Steve Varley, were sent recorded delivery to Tunde Olanrewaju at his office on Museum Street on June 14, 2023. The Royal Mail tracking number for the parcel is KL392797476GB and it was delivered on June 15, 2023. Please see the Royal Mail website for proof of delivery.
As you will see, the letter asks Mr Olanrewaju to respond to a number of urgent questions in the national interest relating to McKinsey's relationship with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the work it does for UK Government. Copies of this letter have also been sent to a wider group of current and former McKinsey employees (not listed here).
I also hand-delivered a copy of the Nolan Principles to McKinsey's Museum Street office on June 15, 2023.
Tunde, I’m very much looking forward to your response.
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Tunde Olanrewaju
Managing Partner
McKinsey & Company Inc
The Post Building
100 Museum Street
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WC1A 1PB
14 June 2023
Tunde.
Please find enclosed a copy of a letter sent today to Steve Varley, UK Chairman and Managing Partner at EY.
As a former Director at EY, I contacted Mr Varley to raise concerns about the firm’s role as a Strategic Partner to the World Economic Forum (WEF).
I believe this relationship has seriously damaged EY’s credibility, and that of all other strategy, consulting and systems integration firms who are WEF Strategic Partners.
If Enron can bring down Arthur Andersen for an accounting scandal, what might happen to firms and Partners helping shape and execute plans for a fascist global superstate?
I’ve enclosed a copy of the Seven Principles of Public Life (aka the Nolan Principles), which requires the same level of transparency from private sector providers delivering public services as it does from those holding public office.
As McKinsey & Company is a major supplier to UK Government, as well as being a WEF Strategic Partner, it seems reasonable to ask you the same questions I sent Mr Varley:
What has McKinsey & Company’s involvement been in the formulation and execution of WEF strategies since becoming a WEF Strategic Partner? Please be specific about meetings, agendas and attendees from WEF, McKinsey & Company and other Strategic Partners, as well as specific plans agreed and disseminated from these meetings.
Is McKinsey & Company Partner money used to fund the WEF? If so, how much funding has been provided by McKinsey & Company to WEF on an annual basis since the start of your Strategic Partnership?
How do you coordinate with other WEF Strategic Partners and how do you mitigate the risks presented by this relating to e.g. client confidentiality?
What mechanisms do you use to ensure WEF strategies are embedded into recommendations to the McKinsey & Company’s clients through paid advisory work, or otherwise? How do you mitigate related conflicts of interest?
How much revenue has McKinsey & Company billed from UK Government contracts over the past five years? Please break the figures down by type of project, commissioning department, project value and financial year within which work was / will be delivered.
What proportion and amount of McKinsey & Company revenues have come from UK Government contracts connected to COVID19 over the past 3 years? Please break the figures down by type of project, commissioning department, project value and financial year within which work was / will be delivered.
What are McKinsey & Company net profit margins on all UK Government work delivered over the past 5 years? Please provide percentage and total value by year.
How do you manage conflicts of interest with McKinsey & Company colleagues going to / coming from high-level government positions?
How much revenue has McKinsey & Company billed from COVID Vaccine manufacturers (including Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, GSK, BioNTech) over the past 5 years? Please break down by year, value, net margin, type of engagement.
Did / does McKinsey & Company mandate COVID vaccination for its employees? If so, how did you carry out a risk assessment of the vaccination programme?
Did / does McKinsey & Company recommend to clients that they mandate COVID vaccination for their employees? If so, how did you carry out a risk assessment of these recommendations?
Did McKinsey & Company participate in the Event 201 Live Simulation exercise hosted by John Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on October 18, 2019?
Are you a UK Citizen and do you consider yourself to be English / British? If so, how do you reconcile national loyalties with commercial and global ones?
What are your personal thoughts on McKinsey & Company’s relationship with the Government of Quebec, which saw your firm running the entire COVID response in a deeply inappropriate manner that fits the definition of fascism?
What are your personal thoughts on the Purdue Pharmaceutical scandal which saw McKinsey & Company fined $573m for its role in turbo-charging the US opioid epidemic?
Eagerly awaiting your response at rise.uk1871@gmail.com .
Yours sincerely.
Ben Rubin
Founder, Rise UK
Founder, Pattern