When Barack Obama Got His Advice From A Zimbabwean!!!
At the beginning of the American President’s second term in office in late 2012, Barack Obama set up an advisory counsel that would focus on global development in the form of the Global Development Council.
appointed as Vice Chairman of that Council was a Zimbabwean strategist in the form of Dr. James Manyika.
Poised to be a scientist after spending sometime at Oxford University he would later go on to join McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) in 1994 and work his way up to become a senior partner.
Based in Silicon Valley, in California, USA he has worked with many of the world’s leading technology companies on a variety of issues, including strategy and innovation, and helped companies outside of the tech sector make the most of technology for business transformation.
He has advised President Obama and other senior U.S. officials through The Global Development Council on issues including: U.S. global development policies and practices, supporting new and existing public-private partnerships, and increasing awareness and action in support of development.
Making us all proud Zimbabweans, showing that even the head of state of mighty United States of America seeks council from us.
Be sure to share this with the rest of the world to let them now that Zimbabweans are a wonderful bunch.
Main Photo Credit via: Brookings.edu – Manufacturing U.S. Prosperity: A Policy Discussion
