FORA.tv Speaker - James Manyika

James Manyika is a Director (senior partner) at McKinsey & Company based in San Francisco. He is also a Director of the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company's business and economics research arm. As a leader in McKinsey's Global High Tech and Strategy Practice, he serves several of the world's leading communication, Internet, software, and systems companies on a variety of issues, in particular on growth and innovation, strategy and organization.

Mr. Manyika has authored a book on distributed networks and decentralized decision theory, numerous academic papers, and articles that have appeared in academic journals, books and the op-ed pages of leading international publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, Economist, Newsweek, Les Echos, Forbes, and McKinsey Quarterly. Mr. Manyika is a frequent speaker at numerous forums on the global economy, business and technology, as well as on radio and television in dialogues with Nobel-prize winning economists.