James Manyika

{{Short description|Zimbabwean-American consultant, researcher and writer}}

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| birth_place = Zimbabwe

| nationality = Zimbabwean, American

| other_names = James M. Manyika,{{cite news |first=Jared A. |last=Favole |title=Obama to Tap Pimco Chief to Lead Development Council |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-37255 |work=The Wall Street Journal |location= |date=December 25, 2012 |access-date=}} J Manyika

| alma_mater = University of Zimbabwe (BSc)
Oxford University (MSc, MA, DPhil)

| occupation = Academic, consultant, business executive

| spouse = Sarah Ladipo Manyika

| years_active = 1989–present

| employer = McKinsey Global Institute
(Chairman Emeritus)
McKinsey & Company
(senior partner emeritus)
Google (Senior Vice President)

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James M. Manyika is a Zimbabwean-American academic consultant, and business executive. He is currently a Senior Vice President at Google-Alphabet and a member of the senior leadership team.

James Manyika - Blavatnik School of Government

Blavatnik School of Government

http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk › people › james-manyika He is also known for his research and scholarship{{cite web |title=James Manyika |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bEgRQoMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra |website=Google Scholar |access-date=25 March 2022}} into the intersection of technology and the economy, including artificial intelligence, robotics automation, and the future of work. He is Google's first Senior Vice President of Technology and Society, reporting directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. He focuses on "shaping and sharing" the company's view on the way tech affects society, the economy, and the planet.{{cite news |title=Google's new senior VP will explore technology's impact on society |url=https://www.engadget.com/google-senior-vp-technology-and-society-222058639.html|first=Jon |last=Fingas |access-date=19 March 2022 |publisher=Engadget |date=January 24, 2022}}{{cite news |title=Meet Google's first head of tech and society, James Manyika|first=Kate|last=Birch |url=https://businesschief.com/leadership-and-strategy/meet-googles-first-head-of-tech-and-society-james-manyika |access-date=19 March 2022 |publisher=Business Chief |date=2 February 2022}} In April 2023, his role was expanded to Senior Vice President at Google-Alphabet and President for Research, Labs, Technology & Society and includes overseeing Google Research and Google Labs and focusing more broadly on helping advance Google’s most ambitious innovations in AI, Computing and Science responsibly.{{cite news |last1=De Vynck |first1=Gerrit |title=Google's AI ambassador walks a fine line between hype and doom |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/09/google-james-manyika-ai-existential-threat/ |access-date=20 November 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 9, 2023}} He is also Chairman Emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute.{{cite web |title=James Manyika {{!}} McKinsey & Company |url=https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/james-manyika |website=www.mckinsey.com |access-date=10 March 2021 |language=en}}

Previously, Manyika was director and chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute,{{cite news |title=Obama Picks El-Erian to Head Global Development Council |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2012/12/26/obama-picks-elerian-to-head-global-development-council.html |access-date=19 March 2022 |publisher=CNBC |date=26 December 2012}} where he researched and co-authored a number of reports on topics such as technology, the future of work and workplace automation, and other global economy trends.{{cite news |first=Sasha|last= Abramsky |title=Meet Julie Su, California's Fighter for Workers |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/labor-su-biden-workers/ |work=The Nation |location= |date=9 March 2021 |access-date=}} During the Obama administration, Manyika served as vice-chair of the United States Global Development Council at the White House. He has served on various advisory boards to US Secretaries of Commerce and State and as the vice chair of the National AI Advisory Committee established by Congress to advice the President on AI.{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/foreign-affairs-policy-board/ |website=State.gov |access-date=20 November 2023 |title=Foreign Affairs Policy Board }}{{cite web |url=https://ai.gov/naiac/ |website=AI.gov |access-date=20 November 2023 |title=National AI Advisory Committee }}

As a board-member, trustee, or advisor, Manyika has been involved with think tanks, national and international commissions, academic institutions, and non-profit and philanthropic foundations including the Council on Foreign Relations,{{cite web |title=Council on Foreign Relations James Manyika Bio |url=https://www.cfr.org/bio/james-manyika |website=Council on Foreign Relations |access-date=16 June 2022}} the MacArthur Foundation,{{cite web |title=James Manyika Joins MacArthur Board |url=https://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/james-manyika-joins-macarthur-board |website=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=16 June 2022}} the Hewlett Foundation, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,{{cite web |url=https://www.broadinstitute.org/people/board-directors |website=Broad Institute |access-date=6 May 2025 |title=Board of Directors |date=10 June 2016 }} Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Aspen Institute. He is a fellow at DeepMind. He is also a visiting professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government.

Early life and education

Born and raised in Zimbabwe, James Manyika attended Prince Edward School{{Cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698010120059654|doi = 10.1080/13698010120059654|title = RE-ENCOUNTERS Rhodes, Rhodesia, Schools and Scholarships|year = 2001|last1 = Manyika|first1 = James|journal = Interventions|volume = 3|issue = 2|pages = 266–295|s2cid = 143534129|url-access = subscription}} and received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Zimbabwe. He attended Oxford University{{cite news |author= |title=Zimbabwean gets top Obama job |url=https://www.newsday.co.zw/2012/12/zimbabwean-gets-top-obama-job/ |work=Newsday / Jewish Times |location= |date=24 December 2012 |access-date=}} as a Rhodes Scholar,{{cite news |author= |title=Outstanding Zimbabwean Awarded Rhodes Scholarship |url=https://zw.usembassy.gov/outstanding-zimbabwean-awarded-rhodes-scholarship/ |work=U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe |location= |date=14 December 2014 |access-date=}} earning a Master of Science in mathematics and computer science, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy in AI and Robotics.

Career

Trained as a roboticist, while at Oxford Manyika studied computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and topics such as Bayesian networks{{cite web | url=https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780133031324/ | title=Data Fusion and Sensor Management: A Decentralized Information-Theoretic Approach (Ellis Horwood Series in Electrical and Electronic Engineering)|website= ISBNS.net }} and decentralized data fusion. He and Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte{{cite book |last1=Rao |first1=B.S.Y. |last2=Manyika |first2=J.M. |last3=Durrant-Whyte |first3=H.F. |title=Proceedings IROS '91:IEEE/RSJ International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems '91 |chapter=Decentralized algorithms and architecture for tracking and identification |date=1991 |pages=1095–1100 |doi=10.1109/IROS.1991.174639|isbn=0-7803-0067-X |s2cid=34665826 }} published the book Decentralized Data Fusion: An Information Theoretic Approach in 1994. Early in his career, Manyika was awarded a research fellowship at Oxford's Balliol College and served on the engineering faculty at Oxford. 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.

He joined McKinsey & Company in the United States by 1997,{{cite news |first=Patrick |last=Butler|author2= Ted W. Hall, Alistair M. Hanna, Lenny Mendonca, Byron Auguste, James Manyika, and Anupam Sahay |title=A revolution in interaction |url=https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/a-revolution-in-interaction |work=McKinsey & Company |location= |date=1 October 2001 |access-date=}} then became senior partner and a member of McKinsey’s board.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/james-manyika|title = James Manyika | McKinsey & Company}} He was chairman and director of the McKinsey Global Institute for 13 years and published extensively on technology, competitiveness, productivity and the economy.{{cite news |first=Taryn|last= Luna|author2= John Myers |title=Gov. Gavin Newsom's chief of staff leaves as new top advisor joins his team |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-21/gavin-newsom-chief-of-staff-leaves-new-top-advisor-joins |work=The Los Angeles Times |location= |date=21 December 2020 |access-date=}}{{cite web |title=McKinsey partner James Manyika joins Google as head of tech and society |url=https://www.consulting.us/news/7202/mckinsey-partner-james-manyika-joins-google-as-head-of-tech-and-society |website=Consulting.us |date=7 February 2022 |access-date=16 June 2022}}

In 2022, he became Google’s first Senior Vice President of Technology and Society, reporting to CEO Sundar Pichai, where he helps shape Google's views on issues such as AI, the future of work, the digital economy, computing infrastructure and sustainability, focusing on how all of these benefit and affect societies, their economies and the planet as a whole.{{cite news |last1=Roach |first1=Sarah |title=Google hires first head of Tech and Society |url=https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/google-tech-society |access-date=16 June 2022 |website=Protocol |date=24 January 2022}} In April 2023, his role was expanded to Senior Vice President and President for Research, Labs, Technology & Society and now includes overseeing Google Research, which works on fundamental advances in computer science across areas such as AI and ML, algorithms and theory, privacy and security, quantum computing, health, climate and sustainability and responsible AI, as well as Google Labs.{{cite web |last1=Pichai |first1=Sundar |title=Google DeepMind: Bringing together two world-class AI teams |url=https://blog.google/technology/ai/april-ai-update/ |website=blog.google |date=20 April 2023 |publisher=Google |access-date=7 June 2023}} Also in 2023, Manyika, Jeff Dean, Demis Hassabis, Marian Croak, and Sundar Pichai published a letter on Google's approach to AI entitled "Why we focus on AI (and to what end)".{{cite web |title=Why we focus on AI (and to what end) |url=https://ai.google/advancing-ai/why-ai/ |website=AI.Google |access-date=6 May 2025}} In 2025, Wired detailed Google's effort to catch-up on the "chatbot revolution" and Manyika's role, along with Hassabis and Dean, in both those efforts and the launch the Gemini program.{{Cite magazine |last=Dave |first=Paresh |title=Inside Google's Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI |url=https://www.wired.com/story/google-openai-gemini-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}

As for his roles on government advisory boards, in 2011, he was named to the US National Innovation Advisory Board at the Department of Commerce. During the Obama administration, from December 2012 until 2017, Manyika served as vice-chair of the United States Global Development Council at the White House.{{cite web |title=James Manyika (Vice-Chair) |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/advisory-boards/global-development-council/members/manyika |website=The White House |access-date=10 March 2021 |language=en}} 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.{{cite web |first=Nancy |last=Scola |title=Wave of resignations hits Commerce Department's board of 'digital economy' advisers |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/18/trump-commerce-department-advisory-board-resignations-241791 |work=Politico |location= |date=18 August 2017 |access-date=}} In 2022, Manyika was appointed as the vice-chair of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee established by Congress to advise the US President and the White House on a "range of issues related to artificial intelligence" and served until the end of this 3 year term in April 2025.{{cite web |title=U.S. Department of Commerce Appoints 27 Members to National AI Advisory Committee |url=https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2022/04/us-department-commerce-appoints-27-members-national-ai-advisory |website=Department of Commerce |date=14 April 2022|access-date=16 June 2022}} Also in 2022, he was appointed by the US Secretary of State to the Foreign Affairs Policy Board and served until December 2024.{{cite web |last1=Cooper |first1=Naomi |title=State Secretary Antony Blinken Announces Members of Foreign Affairs Policy Board |url=https://executivegov.com/2022/06/state-secretary-antony-blinken-announces-members-of-foreign-affairs-policy-board/ |access-date=22 August 2022 |website=ExecutiveGov |date=20 June 2022}}

File:NSF Joins OSTP in Launching Federal Big Data Effort in Washington, D.C. (7119382009).jpg in 2012]] In October 2023, he was appointed by the UN Secretary General to the UN High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence and to serve as co-chair of the body together with Carme Artigas, the Digital and AI Minister of Spain.{{cite web |title=High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence |url=https://www.un.org/en/ai-advisory-body |website=UN.org |access-date=20 November 2023}} The Advisory Body published its final report and recommendations in September 2024 titled “Governing AI for Humanity”.{{cite news |last1=Mukherjee |first1=Supantha |title=UN advisory body makes seven recommendations for governing AI |url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/un-advisory-body-makes-seven-recommendations-governing-ai-2024-09-19/ |access-date=6 May 2025 |publisher=Reuters |date=September 19, 2024}}

In August 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Manyika and Mary Kay Henry as co-chairs{{cite web |first=Kathleen|last= Ronayne |title=Report affirms job losses of low-income California workers |url=https://apnews.com/article/california-coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-f971ebb5dd3b6487fd79989b263e114c |website=AP News |location= |date=2 March 2021 |access-date=}} of the state's Future of Work Commission.{{cite news |first=Margot|last= Roosevelt |title=Californians need higher wages and better jobs, Newsom commission says |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-03-02/la-fi-future-of-work-newsom-inequality |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |location= |date=2 March 2021 |access-date=}} 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. He also co-chaired, with Admiral William H. McRaven, the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. Innovation Strategy and National Security, which issued their final report, Innovation and National Security: Keeping Our Edge in 2019.{{cite web |title=Innovation and National Security: Keeping Our Edge |url=https://www.cfr.org/report/keeping-our-edge/ |website=Council on Foreign Relations |access-date=19 March 2022}} In 2019, Manyika became a member of the Trilateral Commission, and in 2020 was a member of its Task Force on Global Capitalism in Transition.{{cite web |title=Task Force on Global Capitalism in Transition |url=https://www.trilateral.org/task-force-on-global-capitalism-in-transition/ |website=Trilateral Commission |access-date=22 August 2022}}

In 2015, he co-wrote the book No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends. Manyika was a guest speaker in September 2017 at an Estonian summit involving European Union heads of state.{{cite news |first=Peter|last= Teffer |title=Estonia sees digital summit as success in itself |url=https://euobserver.com/eu-presidency/139204 |newspaper=EUobserver |location= |date=29 September 2017 |access-date=}} 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.{{cite book |last1=Sasse |first1=Benjamin E. |title=Them: why we hate each other--and how to heal |date=2019 |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-1250195029 |page=55 |edition=First St. Martin's Griffin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jKdyDwAAQBAJ&q=%22James%20Manyika%22%20-wikipedia |access-date=13 April 2021}} Manyika contributed one chapter to the 2018 book Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it,{{cite book |last1=Ford |first1=Martin |title=Architects of Intelligence |date=November 2018 |publisher=Packt |isbn=9781789954531 |url=https://www.packtpub.com/product/architects-of-intelligence/9781789954531 |access-date=16 June 2022}} by Martin Ford. In 2022, Manyika guest-edited a volume of Daedalus, the journal of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, that was devoted to AI & Society. That volume included his essay "Getting AI Right: Introductory Notes on AI & Society", as well as essays by leading AI researchers, technologists, and social scientists.{{cite journal |title=AI & Society |journal=Daedalus |date=Spring 2022 |url=https://www.amacad.org/daedalus/ai-society |access-date=16 June 2022}} He has co-authored papers with Nobel laureate Michael Spence, including in 2023 in Foreign Affairs “The Coming AI Economic Revolution: Can AI Reverse the Productivity Slowdown.”{{cite news |last1=Manyika |first1=James |last2=Spence |first2=Michael |title=The Coming AI Economic Revolution |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/coming-ai-economic-revolution |access-date=20 November 2023 |issue=Nov/Dec 2023 |publisher=Foreign Affairs |date=October 24, 2023}} He contributed to the quantum error correction work, led by Hartmut Neven, which was recognized as the Physics World "2024 Breakthrough of the year."{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Hamish |date=2024-12-19 |title=Two advances in quantum error correction share the Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/two-advances-in-quantum-error-correction-share-the-physics-world-2024-breakthrough-of-the-year/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=Physics World |language=en-GB}}{{Cite journal |last1=Acharya |first1=Rajeev |last2=Abanin |first2=Dmitry A. |last3=Aghababaie-Beni |first3=Laleh |last4=Aleiner |first4=Igor |last5=Andersen |first5=Trond I. |last6=Ansmann |first6=Markus |last7=Arute |first7=Frank |last8=Arya |first8=Kunal |last9=Asfaw |first9=Abraham |last10=Astrakhantsev |first10=Nikita |last11=Atalaya |first11=Juan |last12=Babbush |first12=Ryan |last13=Bacon |first13=Dave |last14=Ballard |first14=Brian |last15=Bardin |first15=Joseph C. |date=2025-12-09 |title=Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=638 |issue=8052 |pages=920–926 |doi=10.1038/s41586-024-08449-y |pmid=39653125 |pmc=11864966 |issn=1476-4687|arxiv=2408.13687 |bibcode=2025Natur.638..920G }}

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He was named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020 by New African magazine.{{cite magazine |author= |title=100 Most Influential Africans |url=https://100.newafricanmagazine.com |magazine=New African |location=London, England |date=2020 |access-date=}} In February 2021, he co-authored a McKinsey report titled The Race in the Workplace: The Black Experience.{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Ayana |title=Report examines challenges of Black professionals in corporate America |url=https://www.phillytrib.com/news/business/report-examines-challenges-of-black-professionals-in-corporate-america/article_7bc5a07c-439a-5347-8ce0-f55887f8febe.html |access-date=13 April 2021 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Tribune |language=en}} In December 2022, he was again listed by New African as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of the year."James Manyika – Giving Google's AI a human face", New African, December 2022/January 2023, p. 42. In 2023, he was listed in the inaugural TIME 100 AI: “The 100 Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence.”{{cite magazine |title=TIME 100 AI |url=https://time.com/collection/time100-ai |magazine=Time |publisher=Time |access-date=20 November 2023}}

Boards and academia

In 2023, Manyika was appointed to the board of Airbnb.{{cite web |title=James Manyika to join Airbnb's Board of Directors |url=https://investors.airbnb.com/press-releases/news-details/2023/James-Manyika-to-join-Airbnbs-Board-of-Directors/default.aspx |website=Airbnb Investor |publisher=Airbnb|date=11 September 2023 |access-date=20 November 2023}}

Manyika has been involved with a number of think tanks. He is an elected member, on the board of directors, and a member of the executive committee of the Council on Foreign Relations,{{cite web |title=Council on Foreign Relations Board of Directors |url=https://www.cfr.org/board-directors |website=Council on Foreign Relations |access-date=9 September 2022}}{{Cite web |title=Board of Directors {{!}} Council on Foreign Relations |url=https://www.cfr.org/board-directors#committees-of-the-board |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=www.cfr.org |language=en}} a trustee of the Aspen Institute, and former trustee of the World Affairs Council of California. He was previously a non-resident Senior Fellow of Brookings Institution.{{cite web |title=Global Development Council |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/advisory-boards/global-development-council/members/manyika |website=White House Archives |access-date=20 November 2023}}

He is involved with a number of academic institutions. In 2021, he was appointed a visiting professor at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government.{{cite web |title=VISITING SCHOLARS AND PRACTITIONERS |url=https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/james-manyika |website=Blavatnik School of Government |access-date=20 November 2023}} He is on the advisory boards of Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research,{{cite web |title=Hutchins Center for African and African American Research |url=https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/our-people |website=Hutchens Center |access-date=16 June 2022}} which includes the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard{{cite web |title=Broad Institute |url=https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/james-manyika |website=Broad Institute |date=27 March 2019 |access-date=16 June 2022}} and is on the advisory councils of MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing,{{cite web |title=External Advisory Council |url=https://computing.mit.edu/about/people/external-advisory-council/ |website=MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing |access-date=20 November 2023}} University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI,{{Cite web |title=Members of the Advisory Council {{!}} Ethics in AI |url=https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/members-advisory-council |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk}} the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University.{{cite web|title=James Manyika|url=https://hai.stanford.edu/people/james-manyika|access-date=19 June 2021|website=Stanford HAI|language=en}} Concerning digitization, he co-chairs Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab,{{cite web |title=PEOPLE Meet the curious minds behind the Digital Economy Lab |url=https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/people/ |website=Stanford Digital Economy Lab |access-date=20 November 2023}} and is on the advisory board of the Program on Innovation and Diffusion at the London School of Economics.{{cite web |title=Advisory Committee |url=https://poid.lse.ac.uk/about/advisory-committee.asp |website=Program on Innovation and Diffusion at the London School of Economics |access-date=20 November 2023}} He was previously on the advisory boards of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE){{cite web|title=James Manyika|url=https://ide.mit.edu/people/james-manyika/|access-date=19 June 2021|website=MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy|language=en}} and the Oxford Internet Institute, having joined the latter in September 2011,{{cite web|title=OII {{!}} Dr James Manyika|url=https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/james-manyika/|access-date=19 June 2021|website=www.oii.ox.ac.uk}} and the University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.{{cite web |title=SRI Advisory Board |url=https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/advisory-board#manyika |website=University of Toronto |access-date=20 November 2023}} He has been a member of the AI Index team at Stanford{{cite web |title=Meet our team who are leading the way |url=https://aiindex.stanford.edu/people/ |website=Stanford AI Index |access-date=20 November 2023}} and 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{{cite web|title=History {{!}} One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)|url=https://ai100.stanford.edu/history-0|access-date=19 June 2021|website=ai100.stanford.edu}} and was on the advisory board of the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Globalization and Development.{{cite web |title=Journal of Globalization and Development |url=https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/jgd/html?lang=en#editorial |website=De Gruyter |access-date=6 October 2022}}

Manyika has served on the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine's Committee on Responsible Computing Research and its Application.{{cite web |title=Committee on Responsible Computing Research: Ethics and Governance of Computing Research and its Applications |url=https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/responsible-computing-research-ethics-and-governance-of-computing-research-and-its-applications#sectionCommittee |website=The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |access-date=19 March 2022}} He is a member of the Science, Engineering and Technology Committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web |title=Science, Engineering, and Technology |url=https://www.amacad.org/program/science-engineering-and-technology |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |access-date=20 December 2023}} He has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,{{cite web |author= |title=US-based Zimbabwean, James Manyika, Elected Into Prestigious American Institute |url=https://news.pindula.co.zw/2019/04/20/james-manyika-elected-prestigious-american-institute/ |website=Pindula |location=Zimbabwe |date=20 April 2019 |access-date=}} a life fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an inaugural distinguished fellow of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI, a distinguished fellow in ethics and AI at Oxford, a research fellow of DeepMind{{cite web |title=Ethics & Society Team |url=https://deepmind.com/about/ethics-and-society |website=Deepmind|date=4 January 2024 }} and a visiting fellow of All Souls College and a fellow at Balliol College, Oxford.

Foundations and non-profits

Manyika serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation's Lever For Change project, which connects philanthropists to people and projects to fund solutions to societal challenges.{{cite web |title=James Manyika |url=https://www.leverforchange.org/about-us/people/james-manyika/ |website=Lever For Change Website |language=en}} Manyika has previously been a board member of the MacArthur Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation,{{cite web |title=James Manyika |url=https://hewlett.org/people/james-manyika/ |website=Hewlett Foundation}} and the Markle Foundation.{{cite web |title=Dr. James Manyika |url=https://www.markle.org/economic/1858-james-manyika |website=Markle {{!}} Advancing America's Future |language=en |date=15 May 2013}} He has been a trustee{{Cite web|url=https://www.xprize.org/about/people/board|title = Board Members}} of the XPrize Foundation{{cite web |title=XPRIZE Foundation Bio - Dr. James Manyika |url=https://www.xprize.org/about/people/james-manyika?profileType=board_of_trustees |website=XPRIZE |language=en}} and an unpaid senior advisor at the philanthropic Schmidt Sciences, founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, where he co-chairs the AI2050 Initiative which supports academic fellows working to realize "the opportunity for society from AI as well as addressing the risks and challenges that could result from the technology."{{cite web |title=James Manyika |url=https://schmidtfutures.com/person/james-manyika/ |website=Schmidt Futures}} Through the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, he established the J.M.D. Manyika Fellowship, named after his father, to support scholars and artists from countries in Southern Africa.{{cite web|title=J. M. D. Manyika Fellowship|url=https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/faq/james-m-manyika-fellowship|access-date=19 June 2021|website=hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu|language=en}} He was previously on the board of the Khan Academy, which offers free education online, and remains on its Global Advisory Council.{{cite web|title=About Our Leadership Team|url=https://www.khanacademy.org/about/our-board|access-date=19 June 2021|website=Khan Academy|language=en}}

Publications

;Books

Decentralized Data Fusion: An Information Theoretic Approach (with Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte); Prentice Hall (December 1, 1994){{cite book |last=J. Manyika |first=H Durrant-Whyte |author-link= |date=1 December 1994 |title=Data Fusion and Sensor Management: An Information-Theoretic Approach |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bEgRQoMAAAAJ&hl=en |location= |publisher=Prentice Hall |page= |isbn=978-0133031324}}
No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends (with Jonathan Woetzel, and Richard Dobbs); PublicAffairs (1 January 2015){{cite book |last= |first= |author-link= |date=2 June 2015 |title=No Ordinary Disruption |url=https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/richard-dobbs/no-ordinary-disruption/9781610397353/ |location= |publisher=PublicAffairs |page= |isbn=9781610397629}}