James Manyika

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James Manyika
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Manyika speaking in 2017
Born
Zimbabwe
NationalityZimbabwean, American
Other namesJames M. Manyika,[1] J Manyika
Alma materUniversity of Zimbabwe (BSc)
Oxford University (MSc, MA, DPhil)
OccupationAcademic, consultant, writer
Years active1989-present
EmployerMcKinsey Global Institute
(chairman, director)
McKinsey & Company
(senior partner)

James M. Manyika is a Zimbabwean-American consultant, researcher, and writer. Known for his research into topics such as artificial intelligence,[2] robotics automation, and the future of work,[3] he is currently chairman and director of the McKinsey Global Institute[4][5] and a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm,[6] and a member of its board.[7] Before joining McKinsey, Manyika was on the engineering faculty at Oxford University.[8] As director[9] and chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute, he has researched and co-authored a number of reports on topics such as the future of work and workplace automation.[10] In 2011 he was named to the US National Innovation Advisory.[8] During the Obama administration he served as vice-chair of the United States Global Development Council at the White House.[11] In 2015 he published the book No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends.[12][13]

As a board-member, trustee, or advisor, Manyika is involved with think tanks, academic institutions, and non-profit and philanthropic foundations[14] such as the Hewlett Foundation,[15] Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute,[16] the Oxford Internet Institute,[17] and the Aspen Institute.[8] He is a fellow at DeepMind.[18] He is also a Visiting Professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.

Early life and education[]

Born and raised in Zimbabwe,[8] James Manyika attended Prince Edward School[19] and received a Bachelor of Science at the University of Zimbabwe. He attended Oxford University[8] as a Rhodes Scholar,[20] earning a Master of Science in mathematics and computation, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy in AI and Robotics.[5]

Career[]

1989-1995[]

Trained as a roboticist, while at Oxford Manyika studied computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics,[5] and topics such as Bayesian networks[21] and decentralized data fusion. He and Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte[22] published the book Decentralized Data Fusion: An Information Theoretic Approach in 1994.[2] Early in his career Manyika was awarded a research fellowship at Oxford's Balliol College and served on the engineering faculty at Oxford.[8] 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.[5]

1995-present[]

He joined McKinsey & Company in the United States by 1997,[23] then became senior partner[6] and a member of McKinsey’s board.[7] He also became chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute.[4][24] In 2011 he was named to the US National Innovation Advisory Board at the Department of Commerce.[8][11] During the Obama administration, from December[6] 2012[8] until 2017[6] he served as vice-chair of the United States Global Development Council at the White House.[11] In 2015 he also co-wrote the book No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends.[12][13] 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.[25] Manyika was a guest speaker in September 2017 at an Estonian summit involving European Union heads of state.[26] 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.[27]

In August 2019,[28] California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Manyika and Mary Kay Henry as co-chairs[4] of the state's Future of Work Commission.[28] 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.[4] He was named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020 by New African.[29] In February 2021, he co-authored a McKinsey report titled The Race in the Workplace: The Black Experience.[3] He also has been writing about and researching companies in the 21st century,[30] including the role of companies in 2021.[31]

Boards and memberships[]

Manyika is involved with a number of think tanks.[14] He is a trustee of the Aspen Institute and has been a trustee of the World Affairs Council of California.[8][11] He is on the advisory boards of Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute and has been on the advisory board of the University of California, Berkeley School of Information.[8] In April 2019 he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[32]

Several of his affiliations involve artificial intelligence: he is a research fellow at DeepMind[18] and on the advisory council of the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University.[16] 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 AI.[33] Concerning digitization, he is also on the advisory boards of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE)[13] and the Oxford Internet Institute, having joined the latter in September 2011.[17] In 2021 he was elected to a Visiting Fellowship at Oxford University’s All Souls College, Oxford.

Concerning non-profits and philanthropic organizations, he is a board member of Lever For Change, a MacArthur Foundation project connecting philanthropists to projects with positive social impact.[34] Other foundations where Manyika is a board member of include the Hewlett Foundation,[15] and the Markle Foundation.[35] He is a trustee of[36] the XPrize Foundation.[37] and a senior advisor at the philanthropic Schmidt Futures.[14] Through the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, he established the J.M.D. Manyika Fellowship to support scholars and artists from countries in Southern Africa.[38] He is on the board of the Khan Academy, which offers free education online.[39]

Publications[]

Books
  • Decentralized Data Fusion: An Information Theoretic Approach by James Manyika and Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte; Prentice Hall (December 1, 1994)[2]
  • No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends[13] by James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, and Richard Dobbs; PublicAffairs (January 1, 2015)[12]

Personal life[]

Manyika is married to the writer Sarah Ladipo Manyika.[19]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jared A. Favole (December 25, 2012). "Obama to Tap Pimco Chief to Lead Development Council". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. ^ a b c J. Manyika, H Durrant-Whyte (December 1, 1994). Data Fusion and Sensor Management: An Information-Theoretic Approach. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0133031324.
  3. ^ a b Jones, Ayana. "Report examines challenges of Black professionals in corporate America". The Philadelphia Tribune. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d Kathleen Ronayne (March 2, 2021). "Report affirms job losses of low-income California workers". AP News.
  5. ^ a b c d "James Manyika | McKinsey & Company". www.mckinsey.com. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d "Obama Picks El-Erian to Head Global Development Council". CNBC. December 26, 2012.
  7. ^ a b "James Manyika | McKinsey & Company".
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Zimbabwean gets top Obama job". Newsday / Jewish Times. December 24, 2012.
  9. ^ "Picking winners, saving losers". The Economist. August 7, 2010.
  10. ^ Sasha Abramsky (March 9, 2021). "Meet Julie Su, California's Fighter for Workers". The Nation.
  11. ^ a b c d "James Manyika (Vice-Chair)". The White House. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  12. ^ a b c No Ordinary Disruption. PublicAffairs. June 2, 2015. ISBN 9781610397629.
  13. ^ a b c d "James Manyika". MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  14. ^ a b c "James Manyika". Schmidt Futures.
  15. ^ a b "James Manyika". Hewlett Foundation.
  16. ^ a b "James Manyika". Stanford HAI. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  17. ^ a b "OII | Dr James Manyika". www.oii.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  18. ^ a b "Ethics & Society Team". Deepmind.
  19. ^ a b Manyika, James (2001). "RE-ENCOUNTERS Rhodes, Rhodesia, Schools and Scholarships". Interventions. 3 (2): 266–295. doi:10.1080/13698010120059654. S2CID 143534129.
  20. ^ "Outstanding Zimbabwean Awarded Rhodes Scholarship". U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe. December 14, 2014.
  21. ^ https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780133031324/
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ Patrick Butler, Ted W. Hall, Alistair M. Hanna, Lenny Mendonca, Byron Auguste, James Manyika, and Anupam Sahay (October 1, 2001). "A revolution in interaction". McKinsey & Company.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ Taryn Luna, John Myers (December 21, 2020). "Gov. Gavin Newsom's chief of staff leaves as new top advisor joins his team". The Los Angeles Times.
  25. ^ Nancy Scola (August 18, 2017). "Wave of resignations hits Commerce Department's board of 'digital economy' advisers". Politico.
  26. ^ Peter Teffer (September 29, 2017). "Estonia sees digital summit as success in itself". EUobserver.
  27. ^ 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.
  28. ^ a b Margot Roosevelt (March 2, 2021). "Californians need higher wages and better jobs, Newsom commission says". The Los Angeles Times.
  29. ^ "100 Most Influential Africans". New African. London, England. 2020.
  30. ^ "Ten Questions Today's Business Leaders Must Answer".
  31. ^ Rana Foroohar (May 30, 2021). "Five lessons from 25 years of corporate wealth creation". Financial Times.
  32. ^ "US-based Zimbabwean, James Manyika, Elected Into Prestigious American Institute". Pindula. Zimbabwe. April 20, 2019.
  33. ^ "History | One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)". ai100.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  34. ^ "James Manyika". Lever For Change Website.
  35. ^ "Dr. James Manyika". Markle | Advancing America's Future. 2013-05-15.
  36. ^ "Board Members".
  37. ^ "XPRIZE Foundation Bio - Dr. James Manyika". XPRIZE.
  38. ^ "J. M. D. Manyika Fellowship". hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  39. ^ "About Our Leadership Team". Khan Academy. Retrieved 2021-06-19.

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