Martha Laboissiere is the Country Director of Generation USA, an independent non-profit founded by McKinsey & Company. Generation is a youth training and employment program which aims to reach young adults across multiple geographies, and seeks to create and share an open-source, replicable, and scalable training approach to support tens of millions more people. Martha also serves as a senior expert at McKinsey & Company, where her work focuses on economic development and opportunity creation, with an emphasis on labor markets, post-secondary education, workforce development, and talent and human capital. Before joining McKinsey & Company in 2001, Martha received a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and pursued an academic career.