Filipe Barbosa is a Senior Partner in the Houston office of McKinsey & Co and has been with the Firm for 25 years. He is McKinsey’s representative on the National Petroleum Council (NPC) and his work is focused on the Oil & Gas, Energy and Petrochemicals and sectors - where he serves several of the world’s preeminent institutions. He has helped multiple Houston non-profits, including the Greater Houston Partnership (setting up HETI - Houston Energy Transition Initiative), Texas Medical Center (Covid response) and the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. He has deep expertise on enterprise performance transformation, strategy, growth, AI/AA, operations and organization design.

Filipe is the global co-leader of McKinsey’s functional work (capital, operations, commercial, growth, digital, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence) across McKinsey’s Energy & Materials Practice. He founded, and led globally for many years, McKinsey’s Capital Projects & Infrastructure practice, serving clients on mega-projects extensively across industries. He has been on McKinsey’s Global Energy & Materials leadership team for over a decade. He has co-authored articles and research on global strategic shaping forces, strategy formulation, O&G industry dynamics and construction productivity. Before moving to Houston in 2012, Filipe was part of McKinsey & Co’s Johannesburg practice where he led our Global Energy & Materials practice in Africa.

Prior to joining McKinsey & Co, Filipe was a tenured lecturer in the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He taught courses in gas dynamics, control theory and flight dynamics. He conducted research and consulting activities in the fields of shockwave physics, shockwave-vortex interactions, composite structures, nuclear isotope flow visualization & high-speed flow visualization techniques. He holds a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering and has published widely.

Filipe lives in Houston and is married with three children. He is passionate about his family, ranching, tennis, current affairs, history, science & technology, outdoors and fly fishing. Filipe has been on the Boards of: Cristo Rey Jesuit (high school for the economically disadvantaged), the Houston Racquet Club (location of the first Women’s WTA professional tournament), the St. Agnes Academy Emeritus Advisory Council, the Advisory Board of CII (Construction Industry Institute) as well as the Board of the Houston Technology Center. He is also a member of the Houston Awards Dinner Committee for the US Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, and serves on the committee of Troop 673, Boy Scouts of America.