Kenneth Cukier

Kenneth Cukier is Deputy Executive Editor at The Economist and a bestselling author, known for his work on big data, AI, and how technology shapes society.

Kenneth Cukier is the Deputy Executive Editor at The Economist, and host of its weekly podcast on technology. He is also an associate fellow at Said Business School at Oxford, researching artificial intelligence.

His latest book “Framers: Make Better Decisions In The Age of Big Data shines a light on what more ‘data’ can’t accomplish: the unique ability humans have to frame new questions, create original new mental models and so get better results than anyone could have previously imagined.

Kenn is also the co-author of “Big Data: A Revolution That Transforms How We Live, Work, and Think”. A New York Times bestseller that’s been translated in over 20 languages, and sold over 1 million copies worldwide. It won the National Library of China’s Wenjin Book Award and was a finalist for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year. Kenn additionally co-authored a follow-on book, “Learning with Big Data: The Future of Education”.

Previously, Kenn was a foreign correspondent for two decades in Europe, Asia and America. In 2002-04 he was a research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Kenn’s writings have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times and Foreign Affairs, among others.

He is a frequent commentator on CBS, CNN, NPR, the BBC and was a member of the World Economic Forum’s global council on data-driven development.

A trustee of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and 2007-2018 he was a director of International Bridges to Justice, which fosters legal rights in developing countries, and served on the board of advisors to the Daniel Pearl Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He is also a board director of The Open String Foundation, which provides classical instruments to children in poverty.

Kenn has given keynote talks at Google, Facebook, IBM, Stansberry, Linklaters, Microsoft, McKinsey & Co, VM Ware, Schroders, GE, Visa among others. He has also spoken at the IMF, World Bank, US State Department, Council on Foreign Relations, Aspen Institute, Royal Statistical Society and the universities of Harvard, MIT,Oxford and Cambridge, among others.  He has given several TED talks and has spoken at the World Economic Forum.