James M. Manyika is a Senior Vice President at Google. In his Research, Technology & Society role for Google and Google DeepMind, he focuses on Google’s most ambitious foundational and applied innovations in AI, computing and science and in areas that have potential for broad beneficial impact on people and society. He also oversees Google Research -- researchers pursuing cutting-edge foundational and applied work in machine learning and computer science, quantum AI, science and society – and Google Labs, Google’s home for the latest AI experiments and technology.

Prior to Google, he spent over 25 years at McKinsey & Company, including serving on its board, and is now Senior Partner Emeritus and Chairman Emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). Based in Silicon Valley for more than 20 years, Manyika has advised the chief executives and founders of many of the world’s leading tech companies on strategy and growth, product, and business innovation. He has also advised other chief executives outside the tech sector on issues related to innovation, the digital economy, and other global trends. In addition to his leadership of MGI, Manyika has led research on technology’s impact on business and the economy, the future of work, productivity and competitiveness, and corporations in the 21st century. He published a book on AI and robotics earlier in his career, more recently published "No Ordinary Disruption" on global economic trends, and continues to publish numerous articles and reports.

Appointed by President Obama, Manyika served as Vice Chair of the Global Development Council and was selected by two U.S. Commerce Secretaries for the Digital Economy Board and the National Innovation Board. He is on the Council on Foreign Relations board, a member of the Trilateral Commission, and has cochaired CFR’s task force on innovation and national security. Additionally, he was appointed by the governor to cochair California's future of work commission.

He serves on several prestigious advisory boards, including the Broad Institute, Oxford, MIT, LSE, and Stanford. He is a member of the steering committee for the 100-year study of AI and an advisor at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Manyika has also been appointed a visiting professor at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s committee on responsible computing.

A Rhodes scholar, Manyika received a DPhil, MS, and MA from Oxford in AI and robotics, mathematics, and computer science, and a BS first class in electrical engineering from the University of Zimbabwe. He has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a distinguished fellow of Stanford’s AI Institute, a visiting fellow of All Souls, Oxford, a lifetime fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a research fellow of DeepMind.

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