Harikesh Nair

Harikesh Nair is a Senior Director of Data Science at Google, overseeing measurement for the company's performance and brand ads business, including Search and YouTube, with a focus on planning, buying, reporting, and automation in a $250B+ ads environment. Prior experience includes serving as the Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Marketing at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where Harikesh taught classes on strategic marketing and data analysis, and as a Chief Business Strategy Scientist at JD.COM, leading the development of AI/ML-driven advertising products. Harikesh holds a PhD in Business from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MS in Transportation Science from The University of Texas at Austin, and a B. Tech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.