CONVERSATION
Hamilton Mann
The Hamilton Mann Conversation
"The economic value should only be worth the value it creates for society".
Hamilton Mann is a tech executive, a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, a senior lecturer at INSEAD and HEC Paris, a Doctoral Researcher in AI at Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, a Senior Fellow at the Retech Center of the Ecole des Ponts Business School, and a Mentor at the MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Center.
He was named a Top 10 Thought Leader in Technology by Technology Magazine (2024), inducted into the Thinkers50 Radar as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers globally (2024), distinguished as an Honorary Fellow of Leaders Excellence, Harvard Square (2025), awarded the title of World Eminent Man in Digital and AI for Good by the Who Is Who International Academy & Awards (2025), and featured in the Rotman Management Thought Leader section (2025).
Mann’s acclaimed book 'Artificial Integrity: The Paths to Leading AI Toward a Human-Centered Future' (Wiley, 2024) was selected as one of the must-read books of 2024 and among the Top 10 essential read on AI for 2025 by the Next Big Idea Club, and was named one of the Top 10 New Management Books of 2025 by Thinkers50.
Mann is also the contributing author of three books, including Driving Sustainable Innovation: How to Do Well While Doing Good (Brightline Project Management Institute, Thinkers50, 2024), Connectedness: How the Best Leaders Create Authentic Human Connection in a Disconnected World (Wiley, Thinkers50, 2024), and GAIN: Demystifying GenAI for Office and Home (2025).
As an executive leading digital transformation for decades—and formerly an advisor to Fortune 500 companies—Mann serves as Group Vice President at Thales, a global leader in Defense, Aerospace and Cyber & Digital where he co-leads Digital and AI global transformations. Some of his achievements have been featured in a case study by IMD.
He writes regularly for Forbes US about AI and its societal implications and has published articles in prominent academic and business outlets including Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), California Management Review, Rotman Management Magazine, I by IMD, Knowledge@Wharton, Dialogue Duke Corporate Education, Leader to Leader (Wiley), INSEAD Knowledge, Polytechnique insights, the European Business Review.
He has spoken at major international conferences, including the Global Peter Drucker Forum, the Web Summit, the MIT Platform Strategy Summit and the Wharton Neuroscience Summit.
He is an advisory board member at the Ethical AI Governance Group.
He hosts The Hamilton Mann Conversation, a podcast aiming to democratize knowledge about how digital technology, including AI, can be a force for good in society.
