James Manyika
Confidence 0.80 · 3 sources · last confirmed 2026-05-22
Zimbabwean-American business executive and academic. Since April 2023 Senior Vice President and President for Research, Labs, Technology & Society at Google–Alphabet, reporting to Sundar Pichai. The role expanded an earlier 2022 appointment as SVP for Technology & Society and now oversees Google Research, Google Labs, and Google’s responsible-AI work alongside Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) and Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist) — visible in the public record around the 2024–25 Gemini push.
Previously Chairman and Director of McKinsey Global Institute (2009–2022), where he led decades of “future of work” research that anchors several wiki sources. PhD in robotics/AI from Oxford (Rhodes Scholar). Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Public-policy roles relevant to the wiki’s responsible-AI thread:
- Vice-chair, U.S. National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC) — congressionally established body advising the White House (2022–April 2025).
- Co-chair, UN High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence — appointed by the UN Secretary-General in October 2023, alongside Carme Artigas (former Spanish AI Minister).
- Member, AI Index Steering Committee — across multiple editions including 2025 and 2026.
Appears in this wiki via
- 2026-04-28-ai-index-report-2025 — co-author, 8th edition; Steering Committee member.
- 2026-04-30-ai-index-report-2026 — co-author, 9th edition; Steering Committee member.