Professor Majd Sakr is Chief Learning & Research Officer of Accenture and Accenture LearnVantage. In this role, he is responsible for the $1B+ internal training investment that supports Accenture’s growth while providing best-in-class learning experiences for the company’s 770,000 people. Professor Sakr also leads Accenture LearnVantage, the company’s comprehensive learning and training services to help organizations reskill and upskill their people and achieve greater business value in the age of AI.

In this role, he brings extensive expertise in workforce training and technology-enhanced learning to help the company deepen thought leadership in learning and development, grow capabilities and ecosystem partnership, and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation within Accenture and in its clients’ organizations.

Professor Majd has been a faculty member in the Computer Science Department within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University for two decades. He is the founder and director of the Technology for Effective and Efficient Learning (TEEL) Lab. For a decade, he served as the co-director of the Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS) Program at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.

From 2007-2013, Majd was a Computer Science faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ), where he also held the positions of Assistant Dean for Research and Coordinator of the Computer Science Program. He founded the Cloud Computing Lab and co-founded the Qri8 Qatar Robotics Innovation Lab at CMUQ. He also co-founded the Qatar Cloud Computing Center. His research interests include workforce training at scale, cloud computing, and human-robot interaction.

He holds a BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.