Ray is Accenture’s Global Lead for Responsible AI, based in London. He joined Accenture in 2013 and has worked across a number of industries, mainly focusing on analytics strategy and operating model projects and, in the last four years, has developed Accenture’s solutions for data and AI ethics, advising clients and Accenture internally in this area. Ray led the formation of Accenture’s Strategic Partnership with The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, to further research and innovation applied to real-world business challenges.

Ray chairs the government’s Data Skills Taskforce and led the creation of a national data science prize for schools, in association with TeenTech, to excite interest at an early age in the possibilities that a training/career in data science can offer. Ray holds an MA in Modern Languages from Christ Church, Oxford as well as an MBA from INSEAD.