In his day-to-day client work spanning more than 25 years, Humayun has served integrated energy and resources companies, renewables developers, clean tech energy players, and major utilities covering all aspects of industry disruption, operations, strategy, and growth, across North America, Asia, and Europe. He previously served as a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council between 2024 and 2026.
Prior to leading the Global Energy and Materials Practice, Humayun coled the Electric Power & Natural Gas Practice, and the Sustainability Practice.
He has coauthored over 60 publications covering the full spectrum of the energy industry, including AI and data centers and the intertwined energy and materials transition. He has also authored external articles and reports about energy and power, including for the American Physical Society.
Humayun is a regular panelist and participant in forums and industry events, including the Edison Electric Institute, ISO/RTO Council, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Climate Week, FT Moral Money, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, and senior industry roundtables. He is also a member of the FT Energy Source Forum Advisory Board.
Examples of his recent client work include:
- serving a global power, gas, and industrial player headquartered in Asia to drive growth and business building—spanning global liquefied natural gas (LNG) strategy, supply chain reorientation, outside-Asia power generation, AI growth strategy, and US market entry in renewables and gas amid the Middle East energy crisis
- enabling a large Turkish building materials company to deliver AI-driven operational transformation, US growth, expansion into more than 20 micro-markets, and commercial transformation across marketing, sales, and pricing
- supporting a large European integrated energy company to build a global data center business—spanning power generation strategy, new business unit setup, and AI-based trading and marketing across markets
- serving a large US multiutility company on transforming its performance across shared services, generation, distribution, and customer operations
- developing an integrated demand management, energy efficiency, and renewables strategy for one of the largest utilities globally, addressing opportunity assessment and creating a regulatory approach for each state
- supporting a comprehensive transformation of T&D operations and customer experience for one of the largest global utilities
- designing a market entry strategy for several new technology products—including grid balancing, demand management, and distribution automation—for a large technology conglomerate in Asia
- creating an Asian and North American go-to-market strategy for a new suite of distributed generation and grid integration technologies for a large European technology company.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Humayun worked for Deloitte Emerging Markets and was an energy consultant at the World Bank.
