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Matt Westerlund currently leads Boston Consulting Group’s work in agribusiness in North America. He has deep industry experience across the agribusiness value chain, from farm inputs through grain marketing and ingredients. His functional experience includes portfolio and growth strategy, M&A, go-to-market strategy, enterprise sales, ecommerce, industrial IoT, and digital transformation.

Matt is also a core member of BCG’s Industrial Goods practice specializing in agribusiness, machinery, and industrial automation; and a member of the Corporate Finance & Strategy practice at the firm.

Matt was a participant in BCG's Social Impact Immersion Program, during which time he specialized in education, financial inclusion, and global health. He has worked with clients on all of these social impact topics.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • MBA, high honors, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  • BSc, magna cum laude, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Publications and Videos

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Healthy Soil Grows Healthy Food—and Stronger Economies

Greater biodiversity is the key to healthier soil. And healthier soil is the key to a range of environmental and economic benefits. Here’s how to achieve them.
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New Applications and New Strategies for Fertilizer Companies

Fertilizer producers must devise new strategies for a future in which competition for ammonia, their key feedstock, is set to rise dramatically.
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再生農業：より持続可能で高収益な一次生産の構築に向けて

再生農業は、農産物を生産しながら生物多様性や気候を改善する手法です。長期的には農家に大きな利益をもたらす一方、農法の変更に伴うリスクは農家だけでは負担できません。農家を支援するシステムを構築するためのヒントを紹介します。
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Making Regenerative Agriculture Profitable for US Farmers

Regenerative agriculture has the potential to reduce GHG emissions, increase biodiversity, and boost farmers’ profits—if financing and other obstacles can be overcome.
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Four Futures for the Global Food System

The cost of food is rising rapidly, and hunger is on the increase. What will it take to build a better way to feed the world?
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Three Paths to Value Creation for Machinery Companies

Innovative services, digitization, and operating model discipline—the best performers pursue at least one and sometimes all three.
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How Prolonged Trade Wars Could Hurt US Agribusiness for Good

The longer the nation’s many trade disputes drag on, the greater the risk to US farmers that they won’t be able to regain lost share in China and other critical markets.
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What the Trump Administration Means for Agribusinesses

Impending changes in tax, environmental, trade, and immigration policies have the potential to disrupt the US agricultural industry. Here’s what you should be thinking about now.
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Sowing the Seeds of Recovery

Agribusiness has hit a rough patch for shareholders. To weather their near-term challenges, agribusiness companies must place farmers’ economics at the center of decision making.