James Manyika

James Manyika
Manyika speaking in 2017
Alma materOxford University
OccupationAcademic, consultant, writer
EmployerMcKinsey Global Institute
McKinsey & Company

James Manyika is chairman and Director of the Mckinsey Global Institute, the business and economics research institute at McKinsey & Company management consultancy.[1] During the Obama administration, Manyika served on the United States Global Development Council as vice-chair.[2] More recently, he co-authored and presented to the public the McKinsey report Race in the Workplace.[3] His decision-making process and predictions about the future of work are described in Ben Sasse's 2018 book Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal.[4]

Early life and education

Trained as a roboticist, Manyika holds a doctorate in AI and robotics from Oxford University,[1] where he published in the 1990s on decentralized processing of sensor data.[5]

Career and research

Manyika was a visiting scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Labs.[1]

Artificial Intelligence

Manyika is a Fellow at DeepMind in the team that explores the ethical and social questions around artificial intelligence.[6] Manyika is a member of the advisory council of the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University.[7] He 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 artificial intelligence.[8]

Internet and global digitization

He is also on the advisory board of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE), a project that investigate the evolution of businesses as digitization accelerates.[9] Similarly, he is on the advisory board of the Oxford Internet Institute, a department of social and computer science at the University of Oxford.[10] Manyika is a board member of the Khan Academy, a non-profit organization offering free education online.[11]

Non-profit

Manyika is involved in a number of foundations. For example, he is on the board of Lever For Change, a MacArthur Foundation that connects philanthropists with the project that could have the highest positive social impact.[12] Other foundation where Manyika is a board member of include the Hewlett Foundation,[13] the Markle Foundation,[14] and the XPrize Foundation.[15] He is also a senior advisor at Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative founded by Wendy and Eric Schmidt.[16]

Through the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Manyika established the J.M.D. Manyika Fellowship to support scholars and artists from Zimbabwe or other countries from Southern Africa.[17]

See also

References
  1. "James Manyika | McKinsey & Company". www.mckinsey.com. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  2. "James Manyika (Vice-Chair)". The White House. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. Jones, Ayana. "Report examines challenges of Black professionals in corporate America". The Philadelphia Tribune. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  4. Sasse, Benjamin E. (2019). Them: why we hate each other--and how to heal (First St. Martin's Griffin ed.). New York, NY. p. 55. ISBN 978-1250195029. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  5. Rao, B.S.Y.; Manyika, J.M.; Durrant-Whyte, H.F. (1991). "Decentralized algorithms and architecture for tracking and identification". Proceedings IROS '91:IEEE/RSJ International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems '91: 1095–1100. doi:10.1109/IROS.1991.174639. ISBN 0-7803-0067-X. S2CID 34665826.
  6. "Ethics & Society Team". Deepmind.
  7. "James Manyika". Stanford HAI. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  8. "History | One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)". ai100.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  9. "James Manyika". MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  10. "OII | Dr James Manyika". www.oii.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  11. "About Our Leadership Team". Khan Academy. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  12. "James Manyika". Lever For Change Website.
  13. "James Manyika". Hewlett Foundation.
  14. "Dr. James Manyika". Markle | Advancing America's Future. 2013-05-15.
  15. "XPRIZE Foundation Bio - Dr. James Manyika". XPRIZE.
  16. "James Manyika". Schmidt Futures.
  17. "J. M. D. Manyika Fellowship". hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-19.


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