Vanessa Webb

Partner and co-head of Oliver Wyman’s Global Education Practice, Oliver Wyman

Vanessa Webb is a Partner and co-head of Oliver Wyman’s Global Education Practice. She has over 12 years of advisory experience and focuses exclusively on the Education sector, with significant experience both domestically and internationally.

Vanessa works across the student lifecycle – from Pre-K to K-12 to Higher Ed to professional certification and lifelong learning – and has built a high base of knowledge around the intricacies (and sometimes oddities) that are unique to the sector

She works with Education organizations to optimize their commercial levers: refining their growth strategy and identifying new markets and acquisitions for growth, improving pricing practices, taking a more scientific approach to recruitment/sales force optimization and improving the customer experience in order to increase retention and reputation in the market.

Her teams have executed 20 diligences over the past year in the sector.

Vanessa holds a B.A. with honors from Duke University, and an MBA from The Wharton School.