Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Independent Director, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Board Tenure: 2024 – present Committee Memberships: Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)

Basis for Inclusion: Andrew Y. Ng holds a documented governance role as an independent director of Amazon.com Inc., which made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities while the corporation faced antitrust scrutiny and maintained significant AWS AI service relationships. Ng is one of the world’s most influential AI researchers and entrepreneurs, whose work directly shapes the AI policy environment in which Amazon operates. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.

Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate political activity.

What is NOT the basis for inclusion: Ng’s personal political opinions, party affiliation, public statements, or any protected speech are NOT the basis for inclusion. The basis is solely the documented directorial role and its fiduciary connection to corporate political spending documented in the parent corporate donor profile.

Biographical Overview

Andrew Y. Ng is the Managing General Partner of AI Fund, a venture capital fund he founded to build AI-powered companies. He is also the founder of DeepLearning.AI (an AI education platform) and Executive Chairman of LandingAI (computer vision for industry). He co-founded Coursera, the massive open online course platform. He was founding lead of Google Brain from 2011 to 2014 and Chief Scientist of Baidu from 2014 to 2017.

Ng is one of the most cited and influential researchers in machine learning and deep learning. He has taught AI to over 8 million students globally through his online courses. His concurrent Amazon board role makes him an exceptionally well-positioned governance voice on AI product strategy, safety, and policy — areas where Amazon’s AWS and Alexa businesses have direct commercial interests that are significantly shaped by government AI policy.

He holds a B.A. in Computer Science, Statistics, and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University.

Board Role and Governance Authority

• Company: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)
• Board tenure: 2024 – present
• Committee assignments: Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Other Current Board Memberships

• Conducts research via SEC EDGAR for additional concurrent public company board seats

Parent Corporate Donor Profile

This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the Amazon — Corporate Donor Profile, which documents the corporation’s political spending, pending government business, and favorable outcomes under the Trump administration.

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Sources

• Amazon.com Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed April 2025
• Amazon.com Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, 2026
• SEC EDGAR filing: Amazon.com Inc. (CIK 1018724)