James Manyika | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Zimbabwean, American |
Other names | James M. Manyika, [1] J Manyika |
Alma mater | University of Zimbabwe (BSc) Oxford University (MSc, MA, DPhil) |
Occupation(s) | Academic, consultant, business executive |
Years active | 1989–present |
Employer(s) | McKinsey Global Institute (Chairman Emeritus) McKinsey & Company (senior partner emeritus) Google (Senior Vice President) |
Spouse | Sarah Ladipo Manyika |
James M. Manyika is a Zimbabwean-American academic, consultant, and business executive. He is currently the Senior Vice President at Google-Alphabet and a member of the senior leadership team. [2] He is also known for his research and scholarship [3] into the intersection of technology and the economy, including artificial intelligence, [4] robotics automation, and the future of work. [5] 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. [6] [7] 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. [8] He is also Chairman Emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute. [9]
Previously, he was director and chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute, [9] [10] 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. [11] During the Obama administration, Manyika served as vice-chair of the United States Global Development Council at the White House. [12] 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. [13] [14]
As a board-member, trustee, or advisor, Manyika has been involved with think tanks, national and international commissions, academic institutions, and non-profit and philanthropic foundations [15] including the Council on Foreign Relations, [16] the MacArthur Foundation, [17] the Hewlett Foundation, [18] Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute, [19] the Oxford Internet Institute, [20] and the Aspen Institute. [21] He is a fellow at DeepMind. [22] He is also a visiting professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government.
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, [21] James Manyika attended Prince Edward School [23] and received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Zimbabwe. He attended Oxford University [21] as a Rhodes Scholar, [24] earning a Master of Science in mathematics and computer science, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy in AI and Robotics. [9]
Trained as a roboticist, while at Oxford Manyika studied computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, [9] and topics such as Bayesian networks [25] and decentralized data fusion. He and Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte [26] published the book Decentralized Data Fusion: An Information Theoretic Approach in 1994. [4] Early in his career, Manyika was awarded a research fellowship at Oxford's Balliol College and served on the engineering faculty at Oxford. [21] 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. [9]
He joined McKinsey & Company in the United States by 1997, [27] then became senior partner [10] and a member of McKinsey’s board. [28] He was chairman and director of the McKinsey Global Institute for 13 years and published extensively on technology, competitiveness, productivity and the economy. [29] [30] [31]
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. [32] 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. [33]
In 2011, he was named to the US National Innovation Advisory Board at the Department of Commerce. [21] [12] During the Obama administration, from December [10] 2012 [21] until 2017, [10] Manyika served as vice-chair of the United States Global Development Council at the White House. [12] In 2017, he resigned from the Commerce Department's Digital Economy Board of Advisors after Donald Trump made controversial comments about deadly violence against counter-protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia. [34] 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". [35] Also in 2022, he was appointed by the US Secretary of State to the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. [36]
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. [37]
In August 2019, [38] California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Manyika and Mary Kay Henry as co-chairs [29] of the state's Future of Work Commission. [38] 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. [29] 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. [39] 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. [40]
In 2015, he also co-wrote the book No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends. [41] [42] Manyika was a guest speaker in September 2017 at an Estonian summit involving European Union heads of state. [43] 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. [44] Manyika contributed one chapter to the 2018 book Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it, [45] 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. [46] 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.” [47]
He was named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020 by New African magazine. [48] In February 2021, he co-authored a McKinsey report titled The Race in the Workplace: The Black Experience. [5] In December 2022, he was again listed by New African as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of the year. [49] In 2023, he was listed in the inaugural TIME 100 AI: “The 100 Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence.” [50]
In 2023, Manyika was appointed to the board of Airbnb. [51]
Manyika has been involved with a number of think tanks. [15] He is an elected member and on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, [52] a trustee of the Aspen Institute, and former trustee of the World Affairs Council of California. [21] [12] He was previously a non-resident Senior Fellow of Brookings Institution. [53]
He is involved with a number of academic institutions. In 2021, he was appointed a visiting professor at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. [54] He is on the advisory boards of Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, [55] which includes the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard [56] and is on the advisory councils of MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing, [57] the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. [19] Concerning digitization, he co-chairs Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab, [58] and is on the advisory board of the Program on Innovation and Diffusion at the London School of Economics. [59] He was previously on the advisory boards of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) [42] and the Oxford Internet Institute, having joined the latter in September 2011, [20] and the University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. [60] He has been a member of the AI Index team at Stanford [61] 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 [62] and was on the advisory board of the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. [21] He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Globalization and Development. [63]
Manyika has served on the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine's Committee on Responsible Computing Research and its Application. [64] He is a member of the Science, Engineering and Technology Committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [65] He has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, [66] 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 [22] and a visiting fellow of All Souls College and a fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. [16]
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. [67] Other foundations where Manyika is a board member include the Hewlett Foundation, [18] and the Markle Foundation. [68] He has been a trustee [69] of the XPrize Foundation [70] and an unpaid senior advisor at the philanthropic Schmidt Futures, where he has co-chaired the AI2050 Initiative. [15] 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. [71] He was previously on the board of the Khan Academy, which offers free education online. [72]
Manyika is married to the writer Sarah Ladipo Manyika. [23]
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