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James Manyika
McKinsey Global Institute
(Chairman Emeritus)
McKinsey & Company
(senior partner emeritus)
Google (Senior Vice President)
SpouseSarah Ladipo Manyika

James M. Manyika is a

Zimbabwean-American academic, consultant, and business executive. He is known for his research and scholarship[2] into the intersection of technology and the economy, including artificial intelligence,[3] robotics automation, and the future of work.[4] He is Google's first Senior Vice President of Technology and Society, reporting directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. He focuses on "shaping and sharing" the company's view on the way tech affects society, the economy, and the planet.[5][6] In April 2023, his role was expanded to Senior Vice President for Research, Technology & Society and includes overseeing Google Research and Google Labs and focusing more broadly on helping advance Google’s most ambitious innovations in AI, Computing and Science responsibly.[7] He is also Chairman Emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute.[8]

Previously, he was director and chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute,

Obama administration, Manyika served as vice-chair of the United States Global Development Council at the White House.[11] He has served on various advisory boards to US Secretaries of Commerce and State and is the vice chair of the National AI Advisory Committee established by Congress to advice the President on AI.[12][13]


As a board-member, trustee, or advisor, Manyika has been involved with

DeepMind.[21] He is also a Visiting Professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government
.

Early life and education

Born and raised in

Rhodes Scholar,[23] earning a Master of Science in mathematics and computer science, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy in AI and Robotics.[8]

Career

Trained as a

Balliol College and served on the engineering faculty at Oxford.[20] During that time he was also a faculty exchange fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Labs in California.[8]

He joined

McKinsey Global Institute for 13 years and published extensively on technology, competitiveness, productivity and the economy.[28][29][30]

In 2022, he became Google’s first Senior Vice President of Technology and Society, reporting to CEO Sundar Pichai, where he helps shape Google's views on issues such as AI, the future of work, the digital economy, computing infrastructure and sustainability, focusing on how all of these benefit and affect societies, their economies and the planet as a whole.[31] In April 2023, his role was expanded to Senior Vice President and President for Research, Technology & Society and now includes overseeing Google Research, which works on fundamental advances in computer science across areas such as AI and ML, algorithms and theory, privacy and security, quantum computing, health, climate and sustainability and responsible AI, as well as Google Labs.[32]

In 2011, he was named to the US

deadly violence against counter-protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia.[33] In 2022, Manyika was appointed as the vice-chair of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee established by Congress to advise the US President and the White House on a "range of issues related to artificial intelligence".[34] Also in 2022, he was appointed by the US Secretary of State to the Foreign Affairs Policy Board.[35]

Manyika joins the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2012

In October 2023, he was appointed by the UN Secretary General to the UN High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence and to serve as co-chair of the Body together with Carme Artigas, the Digital and AI Minister of Spain.[36]

In August 2019,

California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Manyika and Mary Kay Henry as co-chairs[28] of the state's Future of Work Commission.[37] In March 2021, he and the Future of Work Commission co-authored a report urging California to better address pay inequality and working conditions by 2030.[28] He also co-chaired, with Admiral William H. McRaven, the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. Innovation Strategy and National Security, which issued their final report, Innovation and National Security: Keeping Our Edge in 2019.[38] In 2019, Manyika became a member of the Trilateral Commission, and in 2020 was a member of its Task Force on Global Capitalism in Transition.[39]

In 2015, he also co-wrote the book No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends.[40][41] Manyika was a guest speaker in September 2017 at an Estonian summit involving European Union heads of state.[42] His decision-making process and predictions about the future of work were described in Ben Sasse's 2018 book Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal.[43] Manyika contributed one chapter to the 2018 book Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it,[44] by Martin Ford. In 2022, Manyika guest-edited a volume of Daedalus, the journal of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, that was devoted to AI & Society. That volume included his essay "Getting AI Right: Introductory Notes on AI & Society", as well as essays by leading AI researchers, technologists, and social scientists.[45] He has co-authored papers with Nobel laureate Michael Spence, including in 2023 in Foreign Affairs “The Coming AI Economic Revolution: Can AI Reverse the Productivity Slowdown.”[46]

He was named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020 by New African magazine.[47] In February 2021, he co-authored a McKinsey report titled The Race in the Workplace: The Black Experience.[4] In December 2022, he was again listed by New African as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of the year.[48] In 2023, he was listed in the inaugural TIME 100 AI: “The 100 Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence.”[49]

Boards and academia

In 2023, Manyika was appointed to the board of Airbnb.[50]

Manyika has been involved with a number of

think tanks.[14] He is an elected member and on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations,[51] a trustee of the Aspen Institute, and former trustee of the World Affairs Council of California.[20][11] He was previously a non-resident Senior Fellow of Brookings Institute.[52]

He is involved with a number of academic institutions. In 2021, he was appointed a Visiting Professor at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government.

University of California, Berkeley School of Information.[20] He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Globalization and Development.[62]

Manyika has served on the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine's Committee on Responsible Computing Research and its Application.

All Souls College and a fellow at Balliol College, Oxford.[15]

Foundations and non-profits

Manyika is a board member of the

XPrize Foundation[69] and an unpaid senior advisor at the philanthropic Schmidt Futures, where he has co-chaired the AI2050 Initiative.[14] Through the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, he established the J.M.D. Manyika Fellowship, named after his father, to support scholars and artists from countries in Southern Africa.[70] He was previously on the board of the Khan Academy, which offers free education online.[71]

Publications

Books

Personal life

Manyika is married to the writer Sarah Ladipo Manyika.[22]

See also

References

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