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Joanne Braganza

Associate PartnerChicago

Leads McKinsey’s Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) service line and advises clients across strategy, digital, and operational topics in aerospace and beyond

Joanne is an associate partner at McKinsey and leader of McKinsey’s work in aerospace MRO. She has broad experience in guiding commercial growth and redesigning operating models to improve operational efficiency, particularly through applied digital and analytics.

Examples of her recent work include the following:

  • shaping and executing large-scale programs to drive performance transformation and accelerate digital across fleet network and operations
  • designing a proprietary asset for an aerospace aftermarket services provider to identify tail-level service opportunities
  • advising an aerospace software as a service (SaaS) on the launch of a new services software product

Joanne holds a bachelor of engineering in aerospace from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and previously worked at Airbus, Lufthansa Technik, and Qantas Group. She has worked in the US, Australia, Germany, Amsterdam, and Japan.

Published Work

Aircraft MRO 2.0: The digital revolution,” McKinsey & Company, July 2024

PAST EXPERIENCE

Qantas Group (Jetstar Airways)
Engineering strategy and airline launch

Lufthansa Technik
Aircraft structures engineer

Airbus
Stress engineer

EDUCATION

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace

Melbourne Business School
MBA