Rachel Warren

He serves as a director of the McKinsey Global Institute, where he leads research on the economic and business issues most critical to the world's companies and policy leaders.

Chris brings insights from a wide repertoire of industries and over 25 years of McKinsey experience.

His recent client work spans software, media, banking, retail, consumer packaged goods, and telecommunications.

With the McKinsey Global Institute, Chris leads research on productivity and growth, industries of the future, demographics, and the energy transition.

Chris is also a co-author of the just-released book, A Century of Plenty, A Story of Progress for Generations to Come.

This book is a major research effort from the McKinsey Global Institute.

It explores the advances of the past century, what drove them.

It investigates the possibility of a world of plenty by the year 2100, in which every person lives at or above the levels of prosperity only enjoyed by the top few percent today.

So many things to talk about with you, Chris.

Welcome to the show.

The book presents a very ambitious goal, this idea that every person on earth could be living at Switzerland's current standards by 2100.

So maybe first walk me through some of the core themes of the book.

And then if you can explain, you know, was there a stress test or catalyst that convinced you that this goal is physically possible?

So this idea that the global economy would just have to grow eight and a half times its current size.

So from a resource standpoint, where do you see the most significant physical constraints today?

And in which ways are these surmountable in order to achieve that goal by 2100?

So, you know, if someone's listening to this right now, you know, they're an investor with a decades long horizon.

What does a world of plenty look like?

You know, what are some of the friction points and tailwinds to get us there that we as investors, obviously, as well as humans and consumers should be looking for?

I want to talk a little bit more about the productivity aspect, but the physical infrastructure that's required to reach a Switzerland standard globally.