Lila Ibrahim

Lila Ibrahim
Lila Ibrahim
Born	1969or1970(age 53–54)
Education	Electronic and Electrical Engineering, 1993
Alma mater	Purdue University
Employer	Google DeepMind

Last updated July 04, 2024

Lila Ibrahim is an American engineer and businesswoman. She was hired in 2018 as Google DeepMind's first Chief Operating Officer.

Early life and education

Ibrahim's parents immigrated to the United States.^[2]

Ibrahim studied electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.^[3] She earned her bachelor's degree in 1993.^[4] She was a member of the STEM sorority Phi Sigma Rho.^[5]

Career

Ibrahim started in 1993 at Intel as a design engineer on the Pentium processor.^[6] During 18 years at Intel she held various technical, marketing, and leadership positions, including serving as Chief of Staff for Craig Barrett.^[7] As of 2010 she sat on the Global Council of Thunderbird School of Global Management.^[4]

Ibrahim was appointed Chief of Staff at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2010. Through Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers she began to work with Coursera. Ibrahim was made President of Coursera in 2013, later Chief Business and Operating Officer, and remained there until 2017.^[8]^[9]^[7] During this time she was appointed to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce's National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.^[10]^[11]

In April 2018 Ibrahim was hired as the first Chief Operating Officer of DeepMind.^[12]^[13]^[1]^[7]

In 2023 Ibrahim and DeepMind founders Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg signed a Center for AI Safety statement declaring that "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."^[1]^[14] According to Time , Ibrahim's duties at DeepMind include the management of that risk.^[1]

Recognition

In 2007, Ibrahim was recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.^[15] In 2009, she was featured on the cover of ForbesWoman for her role promoting women in technology.^[5] In 2010, she was awarded the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Social Impact.^[6]^[16] In 2019, Ibrahim was named to Business Insider 's list of Most Influential Leaders Shaping Business Tech in the UK^[9] and Most Interesting & Impactful Women in Tech in the UK.^[17] In 2023, she was included on Time's list of 100 Most Influential People in AI.^[1]

Personal life

Ibrahim is Lebanese-American.^[7] She has twin daughters.^[1]^[7]

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