Theodore Pepanides is a Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company in Greece. He joined McKinsey in 2000 in Brussels and moved to Athens in 2001. He has worked primarily with financial institutions and telecom operators in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey and Southern Europe, with a functional focus on strategy, risk management and operations. He leads McKinsey's Banking practice in Greece and Cyprus and is among the leaders of McKinsey's EMEA Banking & Risk practices. In the past three years, he has co-led the "Greece 10 Years Ahead" program, McKinsey's extensive study on Greece's growth roadmap and strategy.

He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management - Erasmus Graduate School of Business in the Netherlands.