Byron Auguste

Mr. Auguste is the CEO and Co-Founder of Opportunity@Work, a leading not-for-profit intermediary at the intersection of education and employment.
Prior to co-founding Opportunity@Work, Byron served for 2 years in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, where his policy portfolio included job creation and labor markets, skills and workforce policies, innovation, investment, infrastructure, transportation and goods movement.
Until 2013, Byron was a senior partner at McKinsey & Company in Washington DC and in Los Angeles, where he worked primarily in the fields of technology & communications, information & media, services-based businesses, education, economic development, and innovation, leading McKinsey’s High Tech Services sector from 2002 to 2006, and its global Social Sector from 2007 to 2012.
He was also co-author of several McKinsey Global Institute reports, including Changing the Fortunes of America’s Workforce (2009), Growth and Renewal in the United States: Retooling America’s Economic Engine (2011), and An Economy That Works: Job Creation and America’s Future (2011), and Help Wanted: the Future of Work in Advanced Economies (2012).
His professional experience prior to McKinsey was as an economist at LMC International, Oxford University, and the African Development Bank.
He is the author of The Economics of International Payments Unions and Clearinghouses (MacMillan Press, 1995).
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.