Scott S. Nyquist is a senior advisor and former senior partner at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He serves energy and industrial companies on matters of strategy, organization, and performance improvement. During his 35-plus-year tenure, Nyquist advised major electric utilities, chemical companies, mining firms, and oil and gas, private equity, and industrial companies at the center of the energy industry.

Nyquist joined McKinsey in 1984 and was based in the firm's London office until 1998, when he transferred to McKinsey Houston. His main firm leadership roles included creating and co-leading McKinsey's Global Energy and Materials sector and Sustainability and Resource Productivity practices. He was elected to McKinsey's Board of Directors and participated in McKinsey's review committees for partner performance.

In Houston, Nyquist’s community involvement includes serving as vice chairman of the Greater Houston Partnership’s Houston Energy Transition Initiative, a non-resident senior fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute, a board advisor at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, chairman of the University of Houston’s Energy Transition Initiative, a member of the University of Houston’s Energy Advisory Board, and a director on the Performing Arts Houston Board.

Nyquist is also a member of the Shareholder Committee of Wintershall DEA, a European independent oil and gas company, and serves on the board of directors of MAE, a Chile-based hydrogen company. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1980, worked for Exxon Production Research in Houston from 1980 to 1982, and obtained an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1984.