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Kyle P. Lawless

EY-Parthenon Director, Strategy and Transactions, EY Strategy and Consulting Co., Ltd.

Helping companies navigate the complexity of operating globally. Policy enthusiast. Intrapreneur. Optimist.

Kyle is a geopolitical risk and public policy professional with more than a decade of experience in strategy consulting, government affairs and M&A advisory in the US and Asia.

He has held a range of roles across the EY network including corporate strategy, M&A, government relations and geopolitical advisory. In 2017, Kyle co-founded and launched the EY Geostrategic Business Group, a global geopolitical advisory team. He led the establishment of the Wharton Political Risk Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, designing a multi-year research initiative exploring the relationship between geopolitics and corporate strategy.

Outside of EY, Kyle is an active member of the US-Japan Council and the American Chamber of Commerce, Japan. He regularly lectures on geopolitical risk and previously taught at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

He is a US Certified Public Accountant and earned his BBA in Accounting from the Commonwealth Honors College of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Building a better working world

“We live in extraordinary times filled with deep uncertainty and great opportunity. As business leaders seek to navigate this increasingly volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous operating environment, I am honored to play a small role in helping to reduce complexity and help leaders develop strategies that generate sustainable, long-term value.”

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