Kathy
Pham

Kathy Pham is an internationally recognized computer scientist, product leader, and technology executive who helps organizations evaluate and responsibly apply AI in strategic, ethical, and competitive ways. She is the founder of Agents of Purpose, Head of AI at Revive, and a fellow and faculty member at Harvard, where she created and teaches Product Management and Society.

Pham co-founded the Ethical Tech Working Group at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and is a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. She served as the inaugural Executive Director of the U.S. National AI Advisory Committee and was a founding product and engineering member of the U.S. Digital Service at the White House. Previously, she was Deputy Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission and held product and engineering leadership roles at Google, IBM, Mozilla, and Workday, where she was Vice President of AI and Open Technology.

She is the 2024 recipient of the AnitaB.org Technical Leadership Award and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Supélec in Metz, France.