Kathy Pham (she/her)

Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, product leader, and technology executive at the intersection of technology, ethics, and responsibility. Her career began in open source building collegiate systems, and has spanned industry, government, and academia - from Google, IBM, and Mozilla to the highest levels of the federal government.

Most recently, she serves as Vice President of AI and Open Technology at Workday. She was a founding product and engineering member of the U.S. Digital Service at the White House, where she served across three presidential administrations, and most recently served as the inaugural Executive Director of the National AI Advisory Committee. She has also served as Deputy CTO of the Federal Trade Commission, Member of the Defense Science Board’s Generative AI Taskforce, and as a Senior Advisor at Mozilla.

At the Harvard Kennedy School, she created and teaches Product Management and Society. She has also held affiliations at the Berkman Klein Center, Shorenstein Center, and Harvard Business School, and is the 2024 recipient of the ABIE Technical Leadership Award.

Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Wired, NPR, Politico, and TechCrunch. Kathy holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Supelec.