Vivian Riefberg
Vivian Riefberg has been a Professor of Practice at UVA’s Darden School of Business, where she holds a David C. Walentas Jefferson Scholars Chair, since August 2020. In June 2020, she retired as a senior partner with McKinsey & Co., where she worked for over 31 years. Riefberg is now a director emeritus with McKinsey.
Riefberg is a board member of Signify Health and K Health. In 2018, she was elected as a general director to the board of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of John Hopkins Medicine, an advisory board member for the National Education Equity Lab and an advisory board member for the Smithsonian's American Women's History Museum.
In her time at McKinsey, Riefberg held a variety of senior leadership positions, including leader of the Public Sector Practice for the Americas, and co-leader of the US Health Care practice. She served on McKinsey & Co.'s global Board of Directors and on the Senior Partner Committee evaluating and developing global senior partners.
Riefberg led major strategy development, performance improvement, organizational, as well as operational programs across various participants in the private, public and nonprofit sectors. She worked across a range of arenas including healthcare, security, infrastructure and commerce.
Riefberg is a frequent keynote speaker at numerous conferences, including the World Economic Forum at Davos. She is also a contributor to leading industry publications, authoring many articles on government productivity and improving U.S. health care. Riefberg represented McKinsey on initiatives and research on women's leadership in the workplace and gender diversity.
In the past she served as a founding board member on the Board of Directors of the Partnership for a Healthier America, an independent, nonpartisan organization that mobilizes support for efforts to solve the child obesity challenge as an outgrowth of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign.
In addition, Riefberg served from 2000-04 on the NIH Clinical Center Board of Governors and from 2004-06 as a member of the NIH Advisory Board for Clinical Research. In the past, she also served on the Board of Directors of Mentors, Inc., a program for D.C. public high school students and the Board of Generation US, a skills-based training and employment program.