James Lawson

Director, CTO for Strategic Accounts - Microsoft

James Lawson is a Director at Microsoft as CTO for Strategic Accounts.

He advises executives about transforming their operations through data analytics, artificial intelligence cloud computing and other digital technologies. He was selected by DataIQ as one of the UK's most influential people in data.

James has been the Chief AI Evangelist at DataRobot, Director of Strategic Markets at WorkFusion, and a consultant on strategy and operations at Deloitte. His clients have included a range of global financial institutions and FTSE 100 companies, as well as the UK Government, City of London and Metropolitan Police. He read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, with a particular focus on events since 1870.

James advises The Entrepreneurs Network in a pro bono capacity on data, technology, and government process improvement.