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Dr. Mekala Krishnan is a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey’s business and economics research arm, based in Boston, MA. Her most recent research focuses on the near-term impact of the climate transition and of physical climate risk across sectors and geographies, including its implications for companies and countries. She is an author of the recent McKinsey Global Institute research pieces “The net-zero transition: What it would cost, what it would bring and Climate Risk and Response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts”. Mekala serves on a Bretton Woods Committee working group on climate finance, serves on an advisory board for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, serves on the advisory board for the Sibley School of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University, and on the board of the Global Fund for Women, a leading public foundation dedicated to improving global gender equality. She was previously a member of a task force at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings focused on improving productivity measurement.