Jeff Wong

Global Chief Innovation Officer, EY

Jeff Wong is the global chief innovation officer of EY, one of the largest professional services organizations in the world, which has more than 350,000 people serving clients in more than 150 countries. Wong works across the entire organization to help identify, share, and scale leading ideas. He leads the global innovation team, challenging everything from the way EY operates internally to how it provides services to its clients. Part of the global innovation team’s remit is to research and explore new technologies to transform the EY business.

In this role, Wong brings deep experience working in technology in Silicon Valley and across strategy, investing, and building new ventures globally. Throughout his career, he has built new businesses across various concepts, including local commerce, B2B exchanges, services, mobile, and big data at Boston Consulting Group, JAFCO America Ventures, J.P. Morgan Partners, and eBay.

Wong has sat on the Oxford Foundry board of the University of Oxford since October 2017 and the advisory board of AI4All, a nonprofit organization working to increase diversity and inclusion in artificial intelligence, since June 2017. He has been a member on the business council of the Asia Society since July 2020 and is the founding chair of Asia Society’s technology and innovation council, helping drive the innovation and transformation agenda since July 2021. In addition, he has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since June 2022 and, in 2019, was a member of the World Economic Forum’s global future council on innovation ecosystems. He was named a finance leaders fellow by the Aspen Institute in June 2019 and is a member of the Aspen Institute global leadership network.

Other credentials include being a member of the National Committee on US–China Relations since December 2021, a member of the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Network since June 2020, a contributor to the Forbes Technology Council since 2019, and a speaker at the Milken Institute’s 2018 Global Conference.

Wong has a bachelor of arts in economics, master’s degrees in industrial engineering and engineering management, and a master of business administration from Stanford University.