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Mahya Knox

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Chief AI Officer at NAB
📍 Australia

Mahya Knox is the Chief AI Officer at National Australia Bank, responsible for embedding AI safely and at scale. A former McKinsey partner and Head of AI at Commonwealth Bank, she has deep expertise in AI strategy and implementation. She holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Technology Sydney.

Prior to her corporate career, Mahya was an entrepreneur who founded Learned Hub, an online maths tutoring platform. Driven by a vision to make everyone appreciate the beauty of mathematics, she took her startup through an accelerator and a youth entrepreneur mission to Silicon Valley.

She holds a Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering and won two prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship awards during her doctoral studies.

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Current Role
Chief AI Officer
Location
Australia
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Safe AI in Banking
Her current focus at NAB is implementing AI "safely and at scale" to build in-house capabilities and deliver better customer experiences, as stated in recent announcements.
Agentic AI
She was the General Manager for agentic AI at Commonwealth Bank and is now building "rigorous AI agent architecture" at NAB, showing specific expertise in this advanced area.
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Career

Work history

3-2026
Chief AI Officer
NAB
8-2024 - 2-2026
General Manager of AI and agentic AI - RBS
Commonwealth Bank
2018 - 8-2024
Associate Partner - AI
McKinsey & Company
2018 - 8-2024
AI Associate Partner
QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
7-2015 - 12-2015
AI & Engineering Intern
IBM
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Education
Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering
University of Sydney
Doctorate degree - PhD
University of Technology Sydney
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