Oliver Wright leads Accenture’s 89,000+ strong global Consumer Industries Group, which currently works with over 1,000 of the world’s largest companies across Consumer Goods and Services, Retail and Travel.

Oliver sets the strategy and guides the growth of the practice, leading the shaping of Accenture’s perspective on the industry, developing offerings and thought leadership, directly engaging with all of the largest global technology companies who serve the industry and working directly with clients across categories and around the world to drive sustainable profitable growth. He is one of the main authors of Accenture’s thought leadership on Reinvention and the Future of Consumers.

Oliver has worked with the World Economic Forum (WEF) since 2016. In 2017, he co-led the Consumer Industries program on the Future of Retail. In 2018, he led their program on Operating Models for the Future of Consumer Industries and addressed the Consumer Industries CEO group at Davos. In 2019 he was appointed as the lead advisor to the industry group. He supported the World Economic Forum Consumer Industries Industry Action Group (IAG) during Covid. He is currently leading the AI Transformation of Consumer Industries Program for the Forum.

Oliver is a frequent speaker on the Consumer Industries and is interviewed by the BBC, CNBC, Financial Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and multiple industry publications.

Prior to joining Accenture in 2015, Oliver was a partner at Bain & Company where he co-led the global Operating Model practice. Before that, he was a senior partner at Ernst & Young with global responsibility for the firm's Consumer Goods Advisory practice. Earlier in his career he worked at McKinsey & Company where he was the global co-lead of Cost Transformation.

Oliver has a master's degree from the London School of Economics and was an Honorary Fellow at the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School from 2014-2017, where he served as executive in residence in 2013.