Kathy Pham

About

Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, product leader, and recipient of the 2024 AnitaB.org Technical Leadership Abie Award, following recent recipients Drs. Fei-Fei Li, Daphne Koller, Lisa Su, Margaret Burnett, and Nuria Oliver. Her leadership spans industry, academia, non-profits, venture capital, and government across three presidential administrations. She is the founder of Agents of Purpose, a platform exploring human agency in the age of AI. She also serves as fractional Head of AI at Revive, and serves on the Faculty at Harvard, where she created and teaches Product Management and Society and co-founded the Ethical Tech Working Group. Previously, Kathy was Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Workday. She was a Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, and serves on various tech and non-profit boards. She is a Senior Advisor at Mozilla, where she co-founded the Mozilla Builders Incubator and Mozilla Responsible Computing. Kathy was appointed the inaugural Executive Director of the National AI Advisory Committee, led as the Deputy Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission, and was a founding Engineering and Product member of the U.S. Digital Service at the White House, where she helped build critical digital services in government. Kathy has also spent over a decade building large-scale systems in industry and healthcare at Google (Search, Health, People Operations), IBM, and Harris Healthcare. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) and Supélec (Metz, France).