James Manzi is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is the Founder and Chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), an applied artificial intelligence software company. The company's tools are used by several dozen of the world's largest corporations to apply structured experimental methods to determine the causal relationships between business programs and financial outcomes.

Prior to founding APT, Mr. Manzi was a Vice President at Mercer Management Consulting where he spent ten years directing corporate strategy assignments across a wide array of industries and business issues on five continents. He was previously employed in the Data Networks Division of AT&T Laboratories where he developed PC-based pattern recognition software.

Mr. Manzi is a Contributing Editor of National Review, where he writes frequently for both the print and online editions on topics related to science, technology, business and economics. He has also written articles on these topics for The New York Post, The Weekly Standard, Slate, The New Atlantis, Cato Unbound and Culture11. He is a frequent blogger at National Review's blog The Corner, as well as at The American Scene.

Mr. Manzi received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was subsequently awarded a Dean's Fellowship to the Wharton School's doctoral program in applied statistics.

Mr. Manzi serves on numerous corporate and non-profit Boards of Directors.

 

Articles/Op-eds

• Dear Senator: Why You Should Vote Against Cap-and-Trade, Washington Examiner, 09-30-09
• Neither Taxing Nor Rationing CO2 Survives Cost Vs. Benefit Analysis, Investor's Business Daily, 06-11-09
• Dunce Cap-and-Trade, National Review Online, 06-08-09
• GM's Bitter Reality, New York Post, 06-02-09
• Factory Man, National Review Online, 02-23-09
• And Global Warming Too!, National Review Online, 01-26-09

City Journal articles

• The Innovation Squelch, 3 March 2009