34 Facts About James Manyika

James M Manyika is a Zimbabwean-American academic consultant, and business executive.

James Manyika is currently a Senior Vice President at Google-Alphabet and a member of the senior leadership team.

James Manyika is known for his research and scholarship into the intersection of technology and the economy, including artificial intelligence, robotics automation, and the future of work.

James Manyika is Google's first Senior Vice President of Technology and Society, reporting directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

James Manyika focuses on "shaping and sharing" the company's view on the way tech affects society, the economy, and the planet.

James Manyika is Chairman Emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute.

Previously, Manyika was director and chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute, where he researched and co-authored a number of reports on topics such as technology, the future of work and workplace automation, and other global economy trends.

James Manyika 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.

James Manyika is a visiting professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government.

James Manyika attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Master of Science in mathematics and computer science, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy in AI and Robotics.

Early in his career, James Manyika was awarded a research fellowship at Oxford's Balliol College and served on the engineering faculty at Oxford.

James Manyika was chairman and director of the McKinsey Global Institute for 13 years and published extensively on technology, competitiveness, productivity and the economy.

In 2022, James 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".

James Manyika co-chaired, with Admiral William H McRaven, the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on US Innovation Strategy and National Security, which issued their final report, Innovation and National Security: Keeping Our Edge in 2019.

In 2019, James Manyika became a member of the Trilateral Commission, and in 2020 was a member of its Task Force on Global Capitalism in Transition.

James Manyika was a guest speaker in September 2017 at an Estonian summit involving European Union heads of state.

James Manyika contributed one chapter to the 2018 book Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it, by Martin Ford.

James Manyika was named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020 by New African magazine.

In 2023, James Manyika was appointed to the board of Airbnb.

James Manyika has been involved with a number of think tanks.

James Manyika is an elected member and on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the Aspen Institute, and former trustee of the World Affairs Council of California.

James Manyika was previously a non-resident Senior Fellow of Brookings Institution.

James Manyika is involved with a number of academic institutions.

James Manyika is on the advisory boards of Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, which includes the W E B Du Bois Research Institute, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and is on the advisory councils of MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing, the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University.

James Manyika was previously on the advisory boards of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Oxford Internet Institute, having joined the latter in September 2011, and the University of Toronto's Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.

James Manyika has been a member of the AI Index team at Stanford and was an officer of the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, a project at Stanford University where experts discuss the future societal impacts of AI and was on the advisory board of the University of California, Berkeley School of Information.

James Manyika is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Globalization and Development.

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

James Manyika is a member of the Science, Engineering and Technology Committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

James Manyika has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a life fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an inaugural distinguished fellow of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI, a distinguished fellow in ethics and AI at Oxford, a research fellow of DeepMind and a visiting fellow of All Souls College and a fellow at Balliol College, Oxford.

James Manyika is a board member of the MacArthur Foundation, as well as the Foundation's Lever For Change project connecting philanthropists to projects with positive social impact.

James Manyika has been a trustee of the XPrize Foundation and an unpaid senior advisor at the philanthropic Schmidt Futures, where he has co-chaired the AI2050 Initiative.

James Manyika Fellowship, named after his father, to support scholars and artists from countries in Southern Africa.

James Manyika was previously on the board of the Khan Academy, which offers free education online.