LinkedIn Live Well-being Series: Episode 3 - The Global State of Employee Mental Health & Well-Being

Jacqueline Brassey (PhD, MAfN)

Chief Scientist and Director of Research Science in the area of People & Organizational Performance

McKinsey

Jacqueline Brassey (PhD, MAfN) is McKinsey’s Chief Scientist and Director of Research Science in the area of People & Organizational Performance and an affiliated leader of the McKinsey Health Institute. Furthermore, she is a researcher at VU Amsterdam, founder and leader of the Lab for Sustainable Human Development and Performance and an Adjunct Professor at IE University in Spain. She serves as a supervisory board member of Save the Children and as an advisory board member of the Master in L&D in Organisations at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

Jacqui has more than twenty years of experience in business and academia and spent most of her career before joining McKinsey & Company at Unilever, both in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom.Jacqui holds degrees in both organisation and business sciences, as well as in medical sciences. She has a bachelor’s in international business and languages from Avans University of Applied Sciences, a cum laude bachelor’s and master’s in policy and organisation sciences from Tilburg University, a PhD in economics and business from Groningen University and a joint master’s in affective neuroscience from Maastricht University and the University of Florence. She has (co-)authored and presented more than fifty articles, books, podcasts and scientific papers.

She has worked and lived in five different countries, loves running, hiking and a good glass of wine, and currently lives with her South African/Dutch family in Luxembourg.