Howard E. Harris *67

Howard Harris, a director emeritus of McKinsey & Co., died from the effects of an aggressive cancer May 9, 2012. He was 68.

Harris graduated from Stanford in 1965, and in 1967 received an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School. He was with Mobil Oil in Europe before earning a Ph.D. in business from Harvard (1974). He then worked for the Arthur D. Little firm as an energy-policy adviser to international oil and gas companies, chemical companies, and
governments.

In 1982 he was recruited by Montedison S.p.A., the Italian multinational chemical company. In 1990, he joined the London office of McKinsey & Co. as a partner. There, he built up the firm’s European energy and chemicals practice. Harris established McKinsey offices in the Middle East, which served all the major oil, gas, and chemical companies in the Persian Gulf. He retired from McKinsey in 2003, but remained as a director emeritus and senior adviser.

Harris continued as an independent consultant, last living and working in Abu Dhabi. He particularly enjoyed serving on the board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford.

Harris is survived by his wife, Tamara Sinclair; two children; and two granddaughters. He had three prior marriages.

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