RIK KIRKLAND Director of Publishing McKinsey & Co.

Rik Kirkland is Director of Publishing and a Principal at McKinsey & Company. In this role he has global responsibility for McKinsey’s external print and digital content creation, which includes the McKinsey Quarterly and eQuarterly, McKinsey on Finance and a new publication and website, What Matters. He also helps with key event programming and often serves as a moderator at McKinsey conferences.

Before joining McKinsey in February 2008, Rik spent nearly three decades at Time Inc, where he served FORTUNE magazine as Washington editor, Europe editor, international editor and eventually as deputy editor and editor. Under his leadership from 2001-2005, FORTUNE was nominated three times as a National Magazine Award finalist for general excellence and won numerous other prizes, among them Gerald Loeb and Overseas Press Club awards. Besides his print role, Rik helped develop two TV specials for PBS and supervised FORTUNE's online activities. He has been a frequent guest on CNN and CNBC and moderates discussions with top CEOs and political figures at events such as the World Economic Forum, Fortune's Global 500 forums and the Microsoft CEO Summit.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and plays guitar in a rock band, The Prowlers.